Hidden fields
Books Books
" We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together." Franklin replied, " Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 356
1848
Full view - About this book

Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 134, No. 3, 1990)

116 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
..." 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." Nearly two months before the declaration of independence, Congress had recommended that new systems...
Full view - About this book

Memoirs of His Own Time: With Reminiscences of the Men and Events of the ...

Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 534 pages
..."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." But it was such as was then in fashion, and good and substantial enough for those who knew no better....
Full view - About this book

Orators of the American Revolution

Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 492 pages
...heaven in silent prayer for firmness, unanimity 3* and deathless resolve! One almost hears Hancock suggesting to Franklin, " We must all hang together...Westminster. It was there that the Commons, in their feebleness, sent for the prelates to aid their consultations. Afterward, when the days of " the usurping...
Full view - About this book

Orators of the American Revolution

Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 pages
...heaven in silent prayer for firmness, unanimity 3* and deathless resolve! One almost hears Hancock suggesting to Franklin, "We must all hang together...we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly \ve shall all hang separately." Perhaps the only edifice in the world invested with associations at...
Full view - About this book

The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and ...

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
..." 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." Nearly two months before the declaration of independence, Congress had recommended that new systems...
Full view - About this book

The Ashlar, Volume 2

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...
Full view - About this book

History of Independence Hall: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time ...

David W. Belisle - 1859 - 450 pages
...almost hears Hancock suggesting to Franklin — ' We must all hang together, now!' 'Yes,' re-echoes the characteristic response of that plain old Nestor...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...
Full view - About this book

Life of Doctor Franklin

John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 294 pages
..." 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." About two months before the declaration of independence, Congress had recommended that some changes...
Full view - About this book

National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen ...

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 pages
..."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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF