Historian explains why ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’ is the greatest sentence ever

“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 those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”The beginning of the Declaration of Independence is the greatest sentence ever written not because it handed a blueprint to Americans but because it is a perpetual challenge, according to historian Walter Isaacson.