represented separation from England

drafted by Jefferson with help from Adams and Franklin

provides a foundation for popular sovereignty

"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.

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

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.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth shes giving you great company.

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

Cunning is the intensest rendering of vulgarity absolute and utter.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

Whether it's singing, modeling, acting, you name it, they always label you as the YouTuber, the social media kid, the social media star. It's something that I've heard - a lot - but I kind of just put it to the side.

The key is to master a few simple ways to exercise that will burn the most calories in the least time. And you also need to figure out how can you eat more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff without feeling deprived so your diet regimen feels manageable.

My taste in both is pretty eclectic. I do encourage people to try new and different kinds of tea if they can - there are so many different sorts, and so many, flavored or not, and there's bound to be something you like. The same with choral music, really.

When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

You can never turn your back on the ocean.

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

Seeing is not always believing.

I shut myself off to make life bearable. Im like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.