Passage in example sentence
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...."The truly revolutionary realization in that passage from America’s Declaration of Independence is contained not so much in the words "truths" or "self-evident" or "created equal" or any of the rest: rather, it's in the calm self-certainty of those first two words: "We hold...."Note how the text doesn’t launch out with "It is manifestly self-evident that...," or any similar construction, as logic might dictate.