Powerful Words of the Declaration of Independence
The greatest WORDS for the citizens of The United States
of America are in the United State’s Declaration of
Independence. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson and
adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
America’s 13 colonies at the time declared that they
were no longer tied to Brittan or its king and explained
the reasons why.
This declaration and its WORDS set the stage for the
freedoms for the USA and its powerful words are
something Americans should not forget.
As writers and entrepreneurs we exchange
Words4Money most of our writing career.
Americans–Have a happy 4th of July. Everyone else
it is a great time to review the WORDS in your own
country that gave you the freedom you have today.
Here are some of the most famous words ever written:
The Declaration of Independence…
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen
United States of America,
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, 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly
all experience hath shewn 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
sufferance 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.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome
and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate
and pressing importance, unless suspended in their
operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when
so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation
of large districts of people, unless those people would
relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature,
a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their
Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly,
for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the
rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions,
to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative
Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the
People at large for their exercise; the State remaining
in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion
from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these
States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for
Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to
encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions
of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by
refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the
tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of
their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither
swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their
substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies
without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and
superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;
giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for
any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants
of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended
offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a
neighbouring Province, establishing therein an
Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as
to render it at once an example and fit instrument for
introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most
valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms
of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring
themselves invested with power to legislate for us
in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring
us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts,
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign
Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation,
and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of
Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a
civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive
on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country,
to become the executioners of their friends and
Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,
and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants
of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose
known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished
destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned
for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated
Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act
which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a
free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British
brethren. We have warned them from time to time of
attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the
circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity,
and we have conjured them by the ties of our common
kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would
inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of
consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the
necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold
them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War,
in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States
of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing
to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of
our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of
the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish
and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of
Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that
they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British
Crown, and that all political connection between them
and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally
dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States,
they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace
contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do
all other Acts and Things which Independent States
may of right do. — And for the support of this
Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection
of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each
other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
– John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams,
Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington,
William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston,
Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon,
Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin,
John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith,
George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone,
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr.,
Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr.,
Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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