Complacency leads to dependency, independence takes vigilance.

no i read the declaration of independence & see clearly what was intended from before the beginning: "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished...

Pirates. Pirates took over. They were always pirates, they just wrote some fancy words down to make themselves sound all mighty and right. But they were pirates.

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