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From Fox News, Col. Oliver North (Ret.) reads the opening of
Americas Declaration Of Independence, a declaration against t...
From Fox News, Col. Oliver North (Ret.) reads the opening of
Americas Declaration Of Independence, a declaration against the
tyrannies of governments that oppress their own peoples, their
fellow men under heaven
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 Natures God en 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.