Chrissie Whitley’s Reviews > The Greatest Sentence Ever Written > Status Update

First lines | '"We hold these truths to be sacred ..." Sacred? No. That doesn't sound right. But that's how Thomas Jefferson wrote it in his first draft. Benjamin Franklin, who was on the five-person drafting committee with Jefferson, crossed out "sacred," using the heavy backslash marks he had often used as a printer, and wrote in "self-evident."'