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

As it is in my power, as far as my testimony will be regarded, to refute this charge, I think it due to our friendship to do it.

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

It is with a melancholy regret I think of his death; but to death we are all bound by the irreversible order of nature, and in looking forward to it, there is comfort in being able to reflect--that we have not lived in vain, and that all…

I wish old England were as happy in its government, but I do not see it.