Happy Birthday
-- to the United States, only 233 years old. I was listening to the reading of the Declaration of Independence on NPR's Morning Edition yesterday, and these words struck me:
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.
Why did Jefferson think it necessary to preface our list of grievances against the King with this statement of principles? I don't know, but I know how important those words have been in our history.
-- to this blog, 7 years old.