The most underappreciated phrase in The Declaration of Independence is not the hopeful observation about equality and pursuit of happiness but instead occurs a few lines later and is much more pragmatic, “…all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
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The most underappreciated phrase in The Declaration of Independence is not the hopeful observation about equality and pursuit of happiness but instead occurs a few lines later and is much more pragmatic, “…all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”