American revolution Quote by John Hancock

“There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!”

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There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

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people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

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I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

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The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest…

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We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.

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Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you…

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It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of…

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Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in…

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Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God,…

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Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you…

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During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

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