“… 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.”

“The Declaration of Independence”

July 4, 1776