On the record
But whatever different opinions we have of our security in other respects, our TRADE, all seem to agree, is in danger of being ruined in another year.
Source
gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “But whatever different opinions we have of our security in other respects, our TRADE, all seem to agree, is in danger of…”
Editor's note · Context
In this statement, Franklin expresses concern about the threats to trade, reflecting the economic anxieties of his time.
Share
More from Benjamin Franklin
This Indian knew how to set a true value upon a pair of spectacles: for undoubtedly if those glasses were not so plentiful, and only a few of them could be found, they would, on account of their great use, bear the same price with…
The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement.
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…
But let us take a cool view of the general state of our affairs, and perhaps the prospect will appear less gloomy than has been imagined.
Other voices in this conversation
