Benjamin Franklin: “Here then we have a full view of the assembly's injustice; about which there has been so much insolent triumph!”

I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire.

The rest depends on a man's own industry and virtue.

Taxes paid in Britain by the landholder or artificer must enter into and increase the price of the produce of land and manufactures made of it; and great part of this is paid by consumers in the colonies, who thereby pay a considerable…

Strong forts on the lakes, the Ohio, &c. may, at the same time they secure our present frontiers, serve to defend new colonies settled under their protection; and such colonies would also mutually defend and support such forts, and better…