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QuoteMemorizeAges 10–11 · The Adventure Years
“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.”
— Thomas Jefferson (principal author), 1776
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

The second sentence of the Declaration. The philosophical core of the American founding.

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