I would imagine it has been awhile since you read The Declaration of Independence. Every 4th of July, the NPR radio personalities read it aloud during the morning newscast. If you think the Star Spangled Banner is powerful, you should listen to this (or you can just read it at the same site).
Some of my favorite lines...
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
"...all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
" To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."
"A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
Have an Independent Day!!
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