John Hancock
John Hancock
John Hancockwas an American merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term "John Hancock" has become, in the United States, a synonym for a signature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 January 1737
CountryUnited States of America
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.
In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.
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 the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone....
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
I shall look forward to a pleasant time.
I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!
...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.
I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.