He once said "I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. ... This question is touched upon by Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. In this declaration Jefferson said, "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 these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.... The question arises, why leave so many troops in America if the war was over? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Along with being the father of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson had been the minister to France for the past four years. ... In the Declaration of Independence he wrote, "All are men created equal." ...

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She heard the reading of the Declaration of Independence and she watched the young colonists get their first real taste of war. She was not frightened by this, her only question was "Why can I not fight for my country too?". ...

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• Grade Level: High School