Ambassador Moriarty’s Remarks at the Embassy’s Independence Day Reception

Tonight we celebrate the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It is a document that fills Americans with pride. Every American child can recognize the famous lines: "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 this past year, the children of America learned what those lines really mean. "All men are created equal" this is a founding principle of the United States, and with the election of the first African-American president, we saw the fulfillment of that promise.

• Ambassador Moriarty's Remarks at the Embassy's Independence Day reception