- "Of all the ideas that became the United States, there is a line here that's at the heart of all the others."
- ―Benjamin Franklin Gates[src]
- ""But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.""
- ―Benjamin Franklin Gates quoting the Declaration[src]
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the United States, and arguably in the world. It started the United States of America as a country of its own on July 4, 1776.
The Freemasons drew a map to Templar Treasure on its back - the Ottendorf Cipher, along with the invisible messages "Heere at the Wall" and "Beneath Parkington Lane" - according to Benjamin Franklin Gates and the Gates Family.