We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways ; we must all hang together." " Yes," replied Franklin, " we must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. The Life of Benjamin Franklin - Page 280by Benjamin Franklin - 1875Full view - About this book
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...1988. In Benjamin Franklin's words to John Hancock on the signing of the Declaration of Independence we must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. Insofar as Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are concerned I have, as I say, visited the USSR several... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...place when the members were about to sign the Declaration. " We must be unanimous," said Hancock ; " there must be no pulling different ways ; we must...together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Nearly two months before the declaration of independence, Congress had recommended that new systems... | |
| Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 530 pages
...Independence. "We must be unanimous," said Hancock; "there must be no pulling different ways; we must ull hang together." " Yes," replied Franklin, "we must,...together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." But it was such as was then in fashion, and good and substantial enough for those who knew no better.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...place when the members were about to sign the Declaration. "We must be unanimous," said Hancock ; " there must be no pulling different ways ; we must...together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Nearly two months before the declaration of independence, Congress had recommended that new systems... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 492 pages
...hang together now." " Yes," is the characteristic response of that plain old Nestor of patriots, " we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Perhaps the only edifice in the world invested with associations at all comparable with this, was the... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 616 pages
...hang together now.' ' Yes,' is the characteristic response of that plain old Nestor of patriots, ' we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.' Perhaps the only edifice in the world invested with associations at all comparable with this, was the... | |
| Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 pages
...Hancock, who had said — "There must be no pulling different ways, we must all hang together;" "Yes, we must indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all Jiang separately." He was as ready to brave the strokes of arbitrary power, as he had been those of... | |
| David W. Belisle - 1859 - 450 pages
...together, now!' 'Yes,' re-echoes the characteristic response of that plain old Nestor of patriots, 'we must indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.'1 " Yes, and we, too, can almost see John Hancock, when he appended his signature to that... | |
| John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 294 pages
...place when the members were about to sign the declaration. " We must be unanimous," said Hancock ;. " there must be no pulling different ways ; we must...together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." About two months before the declaration of independence, Congress had recommended that some changes... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 686 pages
...this occasion, "there must be no pulling different ways ; we must all hang together." " Yes," answered Franklin, " we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." This Ulysses of many counsels is next at the head of a Convention at Philadelphia, framing a State... | |
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