Independence

When is the last time you read the Declaration of Independence? 4th grade? 11th grade? Possibly never?

Give it a read, if you haven't in a while.

Just think of the set of cohones on these chaps when they put this to paper in 1776:

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved