Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I … - John Hancock

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We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

John Hancock

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

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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, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.

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

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

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A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

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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.

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