John Hancock

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

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual.”

“I conjure you, by all that is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but that you act.”

“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions.”

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

“I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.”

“Burn Boston, though it makes me a beggar, if the public good requires it.”