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• ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king
  a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation....
• INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
  The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system....
• 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...
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all eve
  the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature....
• The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
  -- Thomas Heywood (c. 1574-1641) -- Apology for Actors (1612)...
• There is one right, which man is generally thought to possess, which I am confident he neither does, nor can, posse
  a right to subsistence when his labour will not fairly purchase it....
• Nature is a book of which God is the author.
• 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...