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書籍名稱:英文名著選

              王財貴 主編

出版社:讀經文教事業股份有限公司

The Declaration of Independence(1776)

1. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary

    for one people to dissolve the political bands

2. which have connected them with another

3. and to assume among the powers of the earth,

4. the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature

    and of Nature's God entitle them,

5. a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they

    should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

6.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

7. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

8. that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    That to secure these rights,

9. Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers

    from the consent of the governed,

10.That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

11. it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute

     new Government,

12. laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

13. as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

14. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established

     should not be changed for light and transient causes;

15. and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed

     to suffer,

16. while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing

     the forms to which they are accustomed.

17. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably

     the same Object

18. evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,

     it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

19. and to provide new Guards for their future security.

20. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

      and such is now the necessity

21. which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

22. The history of the present King of Great Britain is

      a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

23. all having in direct object the establishment of

      an absolute Tyranny over these States.

24. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. 

     (編者刪了一段對英國打壓的陳述)

      In every stage of these Oppressions

25. We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms:

      Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

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