EDITOR'S NOTE: To mark our national birthday, we can think of no words more fitting than those that started it all. So for this July 4th, we urge you to take a moment and reread the Declaration of Independence as it appeared in the Maryland Gazette 233 years ago. Have a glorious Fourth.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of...