Common Sense Commanding Assent

I'm taking an online course "The Constitution 101" from Hillsdale College.  I've watched one lecture so far, and am glad to find it was highly substantive yet readily digestible! 

The first session also came with a "for further reading list" which included a letter* from Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee.  Here's a portion I thought important and want to remember:

"This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion."

 *Thomas Jefferson, “To Henry Lee,” May 8, 1825, in Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Works of Thomas Jefferson, “Federal Edition,” Vol. 10 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904–5), 342–43.