Benjamin Franklin: “These workmen all demand and obtain much higher wages than any other part of the world would afford them, and are paid…”

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.

No part of these monies was ever paid by the proprietaries, or ever raised on their estates; and therefore they can have no pretence of right to a voice in the disposition of them.

But above all this, the state and circumstances of our settlements render such a measure not only proper and eligible, but absolutely necessary.