Benjamin Franklin: “That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our…”

But it seems not of so much importance, whether the fighting be done by John or Thomas, or the tax paid by William or Charles.

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…

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.

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…