The Declaration of Independence (Updated)

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one individual to dissolve the political bands which have connected him with another, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that he should declare the cause which impels him to the separation.

I hold this truth to be self evident, that each man is endowed by the Creator with the unalienable responsibility to pursue higher meaning in his life. That to secure this responsibility, a superior conscience is instituted within each man, deriving its just power from the consent of the governed man and from the Creator himself.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of this end, it is the duty of that man to transcend it in his mind.