The Following is an Excerpt from Obama's Book "The Audacity of Hope" which I felt particularly Touching...
"We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident, That All Men Arte Created Equal,That they are endowed by their Creator with Certain Inalienable Rights, That Among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"
"These simply words are our starting point as Americans; they describe not only the foundation of our government but the substance of our common creed. Not every American may be able to recite them; few, if asked, could trace the genesis of The Declaration of Independence to its roots in 18th Century Liberal and Republican thought. But the essential idea behind the Declaration-that we are born into this world free. all of us; that each of us arrives with a bundle of rightsthat can't be taken away by any person or any state without just cause; that through our ownagency we can, and must, make of our lives what we will-is one that every American understands. It orients us, sets our course, each and every day...
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