Honor
Based on the type of men who held the position of president of Congress, the title carried great weight:
“Among the fourteen men who held the chair of Congress, were some of the first characters in America, and of the seven who occupied it during the period, 1774-81, five must be regarded as belonging to a small group of the foremost leaders of the day. These were Peyton Randolph, John Hancock, Henry Laurens, John Jay, and Thomas Mckean. Henry Middleton and Samuel Huntington, the other two, were less prominent, but were possessed of substantial reputations.”
The citizenry likewise viewed the office with considerable honor:
“’Your name, till late, known comparatively to but few out of your own Provence, now holds rank with other Chieftans in the American cause, and is of course, in the mouth of every…man, woman, and child, throughout the extended Continent of English America.’”
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Famous quotes containing the word honor:
“The honor my country shall never be stained by an apology from me for the statement of truth and the performance of duty; nor can I give any explanation of my official acts except such as is due to integrity and justice and consistent with the principles on which our institutions have been framed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Of all my prosecutors ... not one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“Days of plenty and years of peace;
March of a strong land’s swift increase;
Equal justice, right and law,
Stately honor and reverend awe;”
—Henry Holcomb Bennett (1863–1924)