Unprejudiced men well know, that all the penal and prohibitory laws that ever were thought on will not be sufficient to prevent manufactures in a country, whose inhabitants surpass the number that can subsist by the husbandry of it.
Franklin asserts that laws cannot prevent manufacturing in a populous country, indicating the inevitability of industrial growth.
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I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire.
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You are a member of that parliament, and have formed part of that majority, which has condemned my native country to destruction.
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