July 4th: A Celebration of Citizenship

Each year, on July 4, we celebrate not only the birth of our country but also a powerful and revolutionary idea. 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 them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.Gregorian, Vartan. July 4th: A Celebration of Citizenship. Editorial. carnegie.org . 4 July 2010.