Day 166: Happy 241st Birthday, America

The United States of America survived the British, a Civil War, disease, depressions, recessions, terrorism and two world wars. A nation of fighters and entrepreneurs, dreamers and builders, formed by immigrants and cast-offs, the nation has seen its way through some rough time times. But America finds a way to persist. To thrive.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry S Truman

This nation is so much greater than one man tweeting in the middle of the night, no matter how high his position in government may be.

July 4th is always an opportune time to read the full text of the Declaration of Independence and remember that the signers were autographing their own death certificate if they lost the war.

The most famous portion of the document reads:

We hold these truths, 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 to 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 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. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

The end of the Declaration and the beginning of the United States of America reads:

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

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