Benjamin Franklin: “Under such circumstances, freedom may often prove a misfortune to himself, and prejudicial to society.”

With these sentiments he left England; but when, on his arrival in America, he found the war begun, and that there was no receding, no man entered more warmly into the interests of what he then considered as his country, in opposition to…

But if I were in his place, and not otherwise instructed, I should be apt to say, Take your own time, gentlemen.

Yet had I gone at 70, it would have cut off 12 of the most active years of my life, employed too in matters of the greatest importance; but whether I have been doing good or mischief, is for time to discover.

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