Benjamin Franklin: “I am not rich enough to afford much in good works, and so am obliged to be cunning and make the most of a little.”

Some manufactures we could make, but are forbidden, and must take them of British merchants: the whole price is a tax paid to Britain.

Our legal method of compulsion is by imprisonment: the Indians cannot and will not imprison one another; and if we attempt to imprison them, I apprehend it would be generally disliked by the nations, and occasion breaches.

I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire.

Each union would separately be weaker than when joined by the whole, obliged to exert more force, be oppressed by the expence, and the enemy less deterred from attacking it.