Declaration Of Independent

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for man to dissolve the beliefs 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 truth.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate the long establishment of freedom and should not be changed for light and transient pleasure; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I, therefore, the representative of my own freedom, solemnly publish and declare, that this man is to be free and independent man; that he are absolved from all allegiance to the world, and that all connection between him and the world is to be totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, he have full power to levy war and conclude peace and to do all other acts and things which independent man may do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, I pledge my live, my fortunes, and my sacred honor.