Benjamin Franklin: “If you would recal your forces and stay at home, we should meditate nothing to injure you.”

I apprehend, that excluding the people of the colonies from all share in the choice of the grand council will give extreme dissatisfaction; as well as the taxing them by act of parliament, where they have no representation.

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.

Public spirit really exists there, and has great effects.

You are a member of that parliament, and have formed part of that majority, which has condemned my native country to destruction.