Benjamin Franklin: “I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be.”

And as there are already in the old colonies many thousands of families that are ready to swarm, wanting more land; the richness and natural advantage of the Ohio country would draw most of them thither, were there but a tolerable prospect…

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.

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.

We are obliged to carry a great part of our produce directly to Britain; and where the duties laid upon it lessen its price to the planter, or it sells for less than it would in foreign markets, the difference is a tax paid to Britain.