Benjamin Franklin: “You and I were long friends; you are at present my enemy, and I am yours.”

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

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

They have no profitable appointments, but a mere payment of daily wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their expences, so that having no chance for great places and enormous salaries or pensions, as in some countries, there is no…

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.