TIL that in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson had wrote,"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable." It was Benjamin Franklin who changed "sacred" to "self-evident" to champion rationality as opposed to religious providence

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/01/-self-evident/220687/



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