Throughout the 1760s and early 1770s, the North American colonists found themselves increasingly at odds with British imperial policies regarding taxation and frontier policy

drafted by Jefferson with help from Adams and Franklin

provides a foundation for popular sovereignty

represented separation from England

"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."

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

"....whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"

Why would it be important for the decision to separate from Britain to be unanimous?

What words show how the colonists feel about Britain and the king?

By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.

Despite these changes, colonial leaders hoped to reconcile with the British Government, and all but the most radical members of Congress were unwilling to declare independence.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

Thats the thing about pain it demands to be felt.

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.

I am a huge sports fan.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

I was sand, I was snow, written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch get started take action move.

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.