Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Best Writing Ever

Let me preface the following quote by saying first that I do feel some caution in providing a higlighted version of the quote, but it is only because I want you all to read it all the way through... and I acknowledge that many of you would stop if I posted the whole thing. Secondly, might I just say that this is probably one of the best statements ever made in the history of mankind. Please, take a minute to recall any history of the United States you might remember, and thing of the gravity of what these people were doing. The history of this statement alone should suffice for it being such a great work, but beyond even that, I hope that you do see the inherent eliquence and beauty in every sentence. Okay, enough of my words, here it is:

"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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.....But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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