Identifying rhetoric in the Declaration of Independence

"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another....

"..to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the law of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

"...that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;"

To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."

"He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."

"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burn our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people."

"In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms:"

"We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends."