The best line in the musical Hamiton is "What are the odds the gods put us on this spot?"

We got to start from scratch and did not have to overcome the centuries of brutal rule by elites.

Jefferson had his flaws but nobody said it better than this:

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.

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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