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 e ...