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.

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged 

Walter Isaacson 

In this book by Walter Isaacson, he takes the time to analyze the sentence word by word and provide its history and the debates which took place among the men who wrote this most famous Declaration of Independence.

And today’s modern world, weekends I see immediate omissions, and or word changes that could’ve made a big difference in the way the document was recorded and repeated throughout the years of our American history.

For example, we could start by saying we hold these truths to be self evident that all men and women are created equal or we could take it one step further to say that all human beings are created equal. Isaacson begins by explain that there were two definitions of truth as presented by Hume …