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1737–1793 United States
John Hancock (23 January 1737 [O.S. 12 January 1736] – 8 October 1793) was a merchant, 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.
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I have the most animating confidence that the present noble struggle for liberty will terminate gloriously for America.
Boston Massacre Oration (1774)
King George can read that without spectacles!
Surely you never will tamely suffer this country to be a den of thieves.
Boston Massacre Oration (1774)
A well-disciplined militia is a safe, an honorable guard to a community like this, whose inhabitants are by nature brave, and are laudably tenacious of that freedom in which they were born.
Boston Massacre Oration (1774)
That people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
Boston Massacre Oration (1774)
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.
Boston Massacre Oration (1774)
There, I guess King George will be able to read that!
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