When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
...Our friends, our allies, and, as Thomas
Jefferson said, a respect for the opinions of mankind,
are all vitally important. We cannot be an
island even if we wished; nor can we successfully
separate ourselves from the rest of the world.
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