"There are many times when a group of people have to go there separate ways. The now two groups of people have to assume that both sides are treated equally and fairly just as the laws of nature and God intended them to be."
"We, as a people, find these things to be quite obvious to all people: First, all people are born equal. Second, all people are given certain things by their creator: the right of life (that no person should take your life), the right of liberty (we are born as freeborn people and deserve to be allowed to live our lives as we see fit). And the right to purse happiness.
"To set these rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we at times must have a government. The government has its power and authority from those who are the people.
"Sometimes government will overstep their bounds and become bad governments. Sometimes to change the government the people can make small changes. But sometimes when governments become bad, the people have the right to stop being governed and start a new government.
"When the people, the people like you and me, see the time for a new government, we will try to make a government that makes people safe and promotes happiness."
I wrote this at 11pm at night with almost no sleep the night before. Not to bad. Here is the orginal.
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 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."
and:
"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."
Great words.