1776
Release: November 09, 1972

1776 is a musical film directed by Peter H. Hunt and was adapted from the Musical of the same name, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 1969. It stars William Daniels and Howard da Silva. The film revolves around the Second Continental Congress during their debate and deliberation such as slavery and the Revolutionary War. It leads into the Declaration of Independence being formed and signed with all 13 Colonies agreeing on the new Declaration.

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John Adams: "It would be a pity for a man who's handed down hundreds of wise decisions from the bench to be remembered only for the one unwise decision he made in Congress."
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Abigail Adams: "Have you forgotten what you used to say to me, I haven't. Commitment, Abby, commitment. There are only two creatures of value on the face of this earth - those with a commitment and those who require the commitment of others. Do you remember John?"
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Benjamin Franklin: "What do you think, Doctor? Democracy. What Plato called "A charming form of government, full of variety and disorder". I never knew Plato had been to Philadelphia."
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Thomas Jefferson: "Just a moment, Mr. Thomson. I do not consent. The king is a tyrant whether we say so or not. We might as well say so."
Charles Thomson: "But I already scratched it out."
Thomas Jefferson: "Then scratch it back in!"
John Hancock: "Put it back, Mr. Thomson. The King will remain a tyrant."
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John Adams: "Good God, consider yourselves fortunate that you have John Adams to abuse, for no sane man would tolerate it!"
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Benjamin Franklin: "No wonder the man couldn't write! Who could think of independence being married to her?"
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John Adams: "Oh, good God"
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Hopkins: "Well, in all my years I ain't never heard, seen nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yeah! I'm for debating anything. Rhode Island says yea!"
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Benjamin Franklin: "Congratulations, John. You just made your greatest contribution to Independence: you kept your flap shut."
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John Adams: "They won't be happy until they remove one of the F's from Jefferson's name!"
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Hopkins: "Ah, Ben! I want you to see some cards I'd gone and had printed up. Oughta save everybody here a lot of time and effort, considering the epidemic of bad disposition that's been going on around here lately. "Dear Sir, you are without any doubt, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a thief, a scoundrel, and a mean, dirty, stinking, sniveling, sneaking, pimping, pocket-picking, thrice double-damned no-good son of a bitch." and you sign your name - what do you think?"
Ben Franklin: "I'll take a dozen, right now."
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Ben Franklin: "If we do not hang together, we shall most assuredly hang separately!"
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John Adams: " [reading a note tossed down from Jefferson] "Dear Mr. Adams, I am taking my wife back to bed. Kindly go away. Your obedient, T. Jefferson." Incredible!"
Ben Franklin: "You know, perhaps I should have written the Declaration. At my age there's little doubt that the pen is mightier than the sword."
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John Dickinson: " Fortunately, the people maintain a higher regard for their mother country."
Ben Franklin: "Higher, certainly, than she feels for them. Never was such a valuable possession so stupidly and recklessly managed, than this entire continent by the British crown. Our industry discouraged, our resouces pillaged... worst of all our very character stifled. We've spawned a new race here, Mr. Dikinson. Rougher, simpler; more violent, more enterprising; less refined. We're a new nationality. We require a new nation."
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John Dickinson: "Mr. Jefferson, are you seriously suggesting that we publish a paper declaring to all the world that an illegal rebellion is, in reality, a legal one?"
Ben Franklin: "Oh, Mr. Dickinson, I'm surprised at you. You should know that rebellion is always legal in the first person, such as "our rebellion." It is only in the third person - "their rebellion" - that it is illegal."
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Ben Franklin: "Be careful, Mr. Dickinson. Those who would give up some of their liberty in order to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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John Adams: "At a stage in life when other men prosper, I'm reduced to living in Philadelphia."
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John Adams: "A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair. But no, You sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?"
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John Adams: "This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend SOMEbody!"
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John Adams: "Good God, you don't mean... they're not going to...? In the middle of the afternoon?"
Ben Franklin: "Not everybody's from Boston, John!"
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