Benjamin Franklin: “Can any thing less than a military force carry the stamp act into execution?”

If the treaty cannot be made as much to your advantage as to ours, don't make it.

Few of their Children in the Country learn English . . . The Signs in our Streets have Inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only [their language] . . . In short, unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned…

It is comfortable to have a good opinion of one's self, and of every thing that belongs to us, to think one's own religion, king, and wife, the best of all possible wives, kings, and religions.

I wish old England were as happy in its government, but I do not see it.