Abigail Adams : "Remember the ladies" John Adams : "Facts are stubborn things" ; "[T]he most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" ; The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people" ; "Thomas Jefferson survives" Anonymous : "E Pluribus Unum" ; "Yankee Doodle went to town" John Dickinson : "By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall" ; "United, we standDivided, we fall" Olaudah Equiano : "The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying" Benjamin Franklin : "Early to bed and early to rise" ; Let the experiment be made" ; "Join, or die" ; "We must ... all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately" ; "A republic if you can keep it Nathan Hale : "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"