Unification Quotes
As he signed the Declaration of Independence John Hancock stated "We must all be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together." Franklin replied:
This statement was made after he had led the Muslim Ottoman Turkish Army to success in capturing Constantinople—Byzantium, Istanbul—bringing the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) to an end. He had his sights set on the Western Roman Empire next which was the remainder of what they knew of as the world then.
All Spanish newspapers were required to carry this slogan on their mastheads.
Jews at the time not had a national homeland since they were driven out of Jerusalem and Palestine. For almost 2000 years, Jews spread the world over belonging to many different cultures and countries. There was little Jews had in common from one country and culture to another. However, anti-Semites and enemies of the Jewish people caused them to begin to see themselves as one people. This had its culmination in the creation of the Jewish State of Israel in 1949
Those same qualities that Hearn extolled in 1895 which maintained the Japanese Empire against external forces, also were instrumental in the transition to militarism and expansionist aggression that Japan would develop on the 1930s and which led to WWII and the Japanese conquest of much of Asia and eventual defeat for the Japanese.
Adams died on July 4th.
A tongue-in-cheek statement made during German reunification debates reflecting his distrust of Germany.
He persuaded many other rulers to join the Indian Union when India became Independent.
