Josiah Bartlett Quotes
-
Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.
→ -
Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.
→ -
Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.
→ -
Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.
→ -
Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.
→
Josiah Bartlett
- Born: November 21, 1729
- Died: May 19, 1795
- Occupation: Former Governor of New Hampshire
Related Authors
-
Roger Sherman United States Representative -
Abraham Clark Former United States Representative -
William Whipple Signatory -
Elbridge Gerry Former Vice President of the United States -
Richard Henry Lee Former President of the Continental Congress -
Samuel Chase Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States -
Edward Rutledge American Politician -
Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President -
George Clymer Former U.S. Representative -
Robert Treat Paine Former Massachusetts Attorney General -
Oliver Wolcott Former Governor of Connecticut -
John Adams 2nd U.S. President -
-
Charles Carroll of Carrollton Former United States Senator -
Thomas McKean Former Delegate to the Continental Congress