Benjamin Franklin: “The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good.”

That the colonies have no representatives in parliament.

And as Canada is chiefly supported by that trade, if it could be drawn into the hands of the English (as it might be if the Indians were supplied on moderate terms, and by honest traders appointed by and acting for the public) that alone…

But such, it seems, is the unhappiness of human nature, that our passions, when violent, often are too hard for the united force of reason, duty, and religion.

Believing therefore, that it is my duty, I shall honestly speak my mind in the following paper.