Happy 4th of July
How about the word Freedom?
In a Country where most people go and come
as they choose, how many stop to think
what lack of freedom would be like?
Most of us have plenty to eat and a place
to call home.
For some, a hardship is a traffic jam or
having the lights go out. Perhaps even missing
a favorite program or telephone call.
Please pause with me a moment and think about
these words. I looked up Independence and each
of the following words led to the next.
Privilege
Advantage
Purpose
Aim or goal
Benefit...for a good cause...charity
Bountifulness.....magnanimity
Kindness...generosity.....Unselfishness
I now pause to think that those who have fought
for our freedom, did so with an unselfishness purpose.
A goal of securing, for a price such a priceless gift.
The gift of Independence with the hope that each person
would hold this precious inheritance in our hearts and
minds and protect it with our lives.
What great love for Country and for the American
Dream our forefather's had. What great love of Country
and the American Dream those that serve this country have.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you each and
may God continue to bless us with these bountiful
gifts.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
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.
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.--
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;
and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former
Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain
is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,
all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny
over these States.
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