John Hancock Quotes

I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man.

John Hancock

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• The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Losing
  • Despair

• I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Nice
  • Trust

• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Democracy

• People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Often
  • Can

• The British people have the right to decide - have the right to decide whether or not they want to be part of the E.U. And I shouldn't interfere in this.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Want
  • British

• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • God
  • Men
  • College

• The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Time
  • Science

• There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Game
  • Care

• Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

  

  Dale Robertson
  • People
  • Voice
  • Everyday

• The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • People
  • World

• In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • High
  • Earth

• As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Men
  • Country

• People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Night

• The most effective way to preach the gospel is through example. If we live according to our beliefs, people will notice.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • People
  • Live

• We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company.

  

  David Rose
  • People
  • Small

• Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge
  • Daily

• I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man.

  

  John Hancock
  • People
  • Men
  • Country