"I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity…" — John Hancock
"I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny."
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19 Quotes by John Hancock
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- ...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled…
- There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!
- A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
- In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure…
- We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.
- Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice…
- I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our…
- The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
- Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of…
- Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the…
- Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to…
- Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but…
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