Benjamin Franklin: “Such is the difference between uncorrupted new states, and corrupted old ones.”

It is upon this fact I found the propriety of the measure of settling a barrier colony in those parts of our frontiers, which are not the immediate residence or hunting-grounds of our Indians.

An ancient sage valued himself upon this, that though he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great city of a little one.

If the English would advance one step further, or cover themselves where they are, it must be at once, by one large step over the mountains, with a numerous and military colony.

That it would be treating them as a conquered people, and not as true British subjects.