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In Congress,

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."

July 4, 1776

Note: This first part of Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson.
A few other of T.J.'s ideas

Quotes - Thomas Jefferson
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.-Thomas Jefferson


The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.-Thomas Jefferson


I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.-Thomas Jefferson


The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson


"The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves;
that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom
of the press." Thomas Jefferson


I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.-Thomas Jefferson


Power is not alluring to pure minds.-Thomas Jefferson


Most bad government has grown out of too much government.-Thomas Jefferson


What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson


Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.-Thomas Jefferson


Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.-Thomas Jefferson







http://www.ushistory.org/documents/declaration.htm