Benjamin Franklin: “Men will watch him with a jealous eye, they will hide their papers from him, and lock up their escrutoires.”

But it seems not of so much importance, whether the fighting be done by John or Thomas, or the tax paid by William or Charles.

They have ever been applied with prudent frugality to the honour and advantage of the public, and the king's immediate service, to the general approbation of the people: the credit of the government has been preserved, and the debts of the…

I apprehend, that excluding the people of the colonies from all share in the choice of the grand council will give extreme dissatisfaction; as well as the taxing them by act of parliament, where they have no representation.

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.