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.
- opening of the Declaration of Independence, as written by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, while they were still mostly farmers and subjects of the most powerful empire on earth, facing death by hanging for the crime of treason if their lofty words were not backed up by successful armed defense of their new nation
Could the American Revolution have been won, or even taken place, were it not for the power of words both read and written by our clearly overly-idealistic and enlightened Founding Fathers?
