It's Independence Day!It's Independence Day in the United States, so we realize that many of you won't even be reading this until Tuesday, at the earliest. Still, we think the following is worthy reading for every American, every day. We've edited it for space - so feel free to view the entire document at its official website, including some great information on it's history. While you're at it, you may even want to read the Constitution - and feel free to forward today's Daily Felltoon to those persons you might know who may not know the difference between the two documents.
Enjoy your holiday safely, whatever you choose to do.
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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... |
