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
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
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.
This proposal is clearly not a partisan issue.
We are actually grateful with the results, and the positive movement in our direction. We feel we're in a very good place three years before an election.
A lot of the focus, at even the venues that support underground music, seems to be less on live music groups and more on records by other, more well-known national acts.
Speed is the number one thing trucks can do, if they slow down every 10 miles per hour, they save a mile per gallon.
If the July jobs report was bad news, at least it wasn't awful news,
I don't think we are going to see a big downdraft here, ... It's going to be a more selective market. It's been very easy, frankly, in technology over the past seven or eight months since the market bottomed in October.
The Greenspan Fed has inaction down to a fine art, ... They stood by through much of the late 1990s, allowing a very beneficial reduction in unemployment without suffering any inflationary consequences. When they do have to move, they do so quickly and surgically.
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.
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
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.
I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .