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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:42 PM
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Anyone recall this? It was once big news...
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. --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.

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thoughtanarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:44 PM
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1. Let's see... alter or abolish? which one? n/t
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shelley806 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:50 PM
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3. With your sig? I can't imagine which one you'ld choose!...n/t
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shelley806 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:49 PM
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2. I'm so depressed and shocked right now...but we all need momentum
or we will choose the wrong option; suffer under this administration's evil form!

"that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

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