Benjamin Franklin: “Nobody asks leave to pay a debt: every Briton is your debtor, sir: and all we have said, or can say, is but a poor…”

The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement.

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…

An ancient sage valued himself upon this, that though he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great city of a little one.

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…