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• We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
• We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Declaration of Independence...
• When forced to resort to arms for redress, an appeal to the tribunal of the world was deemed proper for our justification.
  This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• A handshake isn't worth the paper it is written on. JUDGE WAPNER
• Neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Articles of Confederation nor any of the first state constitutions had mentioned the word "republic.
  At the time, it was like a red flag to conservatives everywhere....
• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show.
  Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that....
• We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal
  hat they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Righ...
• Yes, son, long ago, mail was written with pen and paper.