Walter Isaacson on the Sentence That Created America

By The Free Press | Created at 2026-06-11 09:40:07 | Updated at 2026-06-17 15:38:44 6 days ago

If America has a mission statement, it is this:

“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.”

In a special conversation recorded at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, acclaimed biograph…

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