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:
“Well, ‘tis no matter, honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if
honor prick me off when I come on? how then?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)