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Why Independence?
 by escaping slave on 7/4/2008 @ 8:10am |
On this Independence Day, take a moment to read the unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America and learn why we declared our independence:
www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/decla... Here's a couple quick highlights that are my favorites: 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, laying 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. 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. Did you know it's not only your right, but your duty, as a Citizen, to throw off bad government? If you think we have bad government and don't like it, what are you doing as a Citizen to help the fight? It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. - Benjamin Franklin Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. - George Santayana It's not the Request for Independence...it is a Declaration. Independence was declared and taken, and battles were fought and lives were lost. That's how much independence mattered to some....it was worth risking their own lives, not just the lives of kids that aren't their own. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. - Thomas Paine If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were out countrymen. - Samuel Adams |
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