Benjamin Franklin: “Providence has appointed few to roll in carriages, while he has given to all a pair of legs, which are machines…”

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.

But let us take a cool view of the general state of our affairs, and perhaps the prospect will appear less gloomy than has been imagined.

You are a member of that parliament, and have formed part of that majority, which has condemned my native country to destruction.

Taxes paid in Britain by the landholder or artificer must enter into and increase the price of the produce of land and manufactures made of it; and great part of this is paid by consumers in the colonies, who thereby pay a considerable…