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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
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- Source:
- Declaration of Independence.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8ca8bd1942c6641eb6d74ea096567a188b1600cdfbaf0344b0053f5e8ea7d2b0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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