Thomas Paine: "The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth."

John Hancock: "There! His majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head."

Benjamin Franklin: "We must hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately."

George Washington "Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind."

Thomas Jefferson "The flames kindled on the 4 July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them...The Declaration of Independence.. is the declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man."

John Adams "Independence Forever." The day both he and Jefferson died.