Benjamin Franklin: “Our possessions there deserve our greatest care and attention.”

I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire.

Each union would separately be weaker than when joined by the whole, obliged to exert more force, be oppressed by the expence, and the enemy less deterred from attacking it.

For a piece of baize, or a pot full of brandy, or the like, they could get a piece of ground, which at present would be worth more than 290l. sterling." Ib.

Believing therefore, that it is my duty, I shall honestly speak my mind in the following paper.