The speech that stunned listeners into silence

Bill Federer remembers some of history's most famous words

The Declaration of Independence indicted King George III because:
“He has obstructed the administration of justice. …”
“He has made judges dependent on his will alone. …”
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people. …”
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies … independent of and superior to the civil power. …”
“He has combined … to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … Giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation … for imposing taxes on us without our consent …”
“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. …”
“Establishing therein an arbitrary government … introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies. …”
“For … altering fundamentally the forms of our governments. …”
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us. …”
“In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress. … Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

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