Happy July 4th!
Today in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by representatives of 13 British colonies in the new land, the Continental Congress. These brave men included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and others.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
And Happy Independence Day.
