Benjamin Franklin: “He, that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day, one day with another, wastes the privilege of using one…”

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

I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire.

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.

It is upon this fact I found the propriety of the measure of settling a barrier colony in those parts of our frontiers, which are not the immediate residence or hunting-grounds of our Indians.