US Department of State: Marking The Birth Of Our Great Nation
Washington, DC (STL.News) The US Department of State released the following statement:
In 1776 on this day, our founding fathers created, in Abraham Lincoln’s words, “a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” For the first time in human history, a nation was brought into being recognizing, as our Declaration of Independence affirms, that all persons “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
This idea – that every human being enjoys unalienable rights, and that it is government’s duty to protect such rights – was at once a revolutionary political notion and a restatement of the ancient and beautiful teaching that every human life is precious be...