Maybe the celebration of the 250th birthday of the U.S. Declaration of Independence would be incomplete without this quote:
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.
If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.”
(Speech “The Inspiration of the Declaration,” delivered on America’s 150th birthday on July 5th, 1926)
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