Benjamin Franklin: “How absurd to suppose, that all this carelessness can be reconcileable with health, without my interposition!”

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.

Few of their Children in the Country learn English . . . The Signs in our Streets have Inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only [their language] . . . In short, unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned…

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.

Public spirit really exists there, and has great effects.