Benjamin Franklin: “Our case is dangerously bad; but perhaps there is yet a remedy, if we have but the prudence and the spirit to apply it.”

If the English would advance one step further, or cover themselves where they are, it must be at once, by one large step over the mountains, with a numerous and military colony.

The rest depends on a man's own industry and virtue.

That the colonies have no representatives in parliament.

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…