“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
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pursuing invariably the same Object
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evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
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it is their right,
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it is their duty,
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to throw off such Government,
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and provide new Guards for their future security.”
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-Declaration of Independence, 1776