Posted by
Defend America on Friday, July 04, 2008 7:11:54 AM
Let's not fight today about politics. One thing we should all agree on, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and all other third parties is that this country is the greatest to live in. One that provides life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, democracy, numerous opportunities to succeed, and of course freedom. Whether we not agree on how we preserve all those principles it still what the United States stand for today. To celebrate this great day of our nation being born we should all look back and see why we are a country today. We declared independence from Britain because they did not offer us what a government should. Every American should read the Declaration of Independence to fully understand why we are who we are as a nation today. Let Freedom Ring today and all days because without freedom nothing is great.
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. That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government, having its foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety
and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly 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. 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. Such has been the patient
suffrance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains
them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present
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. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Only part of the Declaration of Independence, but anybody can find the rest on any internet website.
Enjoy today and remember what today is really about which is freedom.