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Independence Day Quotes

July 4, 2010 by · Comments Off on Independence Day Quotes 

Independence Day QuotesIndependence Day Quotes:The Fourth of July means the independence of the American colonies from the yoke of Great Britian. As an important symbol and holidays for the United States, there have been many moving citations have been said about the holiday from history. Here are some of the most famous quotations of July 4.

“Freedom is nothing but an opportunity to be better.” – Albert Camus

“Then, go hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, divided we fall. “- John Dickenson

“This nation will remain the land of freedom only to the extent that it is the home of the brave.” Elmer Davis ”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves” – Abraham Lincoln

“We on this continent must not forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their plows, but to secure liberty for their souls.” – Robert J. McCracken

“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”-Woodrow Wilson

“In the truest sense, freedom can not be granted, but must be reached.” – Franklin Roosevelt

“I love my freedom. I love my America.” – Jessi Lane Adams

It is important to remember the meaning behind Independence Day and having to happy Independence Day with that dear. Many will be watching the fireworks while others will be barbecue. The contributions of his predecessors can help Americans present in the memory of the importance of Independence Day, and the true meaning of freedom.

Declaration of Independence Text

July 2, 2010 by · Comments Off on Declaration of Independence Text 

Declaration of Independence Text:Now that July 4th is approaching, many people have become online to find the declaration of independence text and we have it here for you! We are providing below the full text with original spelling and capitalization.

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 the God of Nature entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to 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 people’s right 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 they seem more likely to achieve their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient, and indeed all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves 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 to people under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and 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 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 approval must be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend.

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 pending 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, that the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has tried to prevent the population of those states, for it obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration 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 legislature.

He has affected to render the Military independent and superior to 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 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, the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries, in order to give 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, burned our towns and destroyed the lives of our people.

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 and 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 endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is 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 missed the attention 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 the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

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, in the name, and the 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, 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 must be completely dissolved, and as free and independent states, they have full Power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce and do all acts and things which independent states may of right do. In support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

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 Taylor Smith, George, 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

Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776

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