DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
was the greatest event in the history of mankind since the creation of Adam and the birth of Christ.
It was a lofty and true indictment against the crimes of monarchy, and was the entering wedge in splitting the rotten log of robber royalty.
These words and phrases keep ever sounding in my soaring soul:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!"
"The history of the King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States."
"The King has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns and destroyed the lives of our people."
"The road to happiness and glory is open to us; we will climb it apart from the British Government, and acquiesce our eternal separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends."
"And for the support of this Declaration, with reliance in Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor!"
Moving along with the martyrs who have died for progress and liberty: