Benjamin Franklin: “I am persuaded the body of the British people are our friends; but they are changeable, and by your lying gazettes may…”

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.

An ancient sage valued himself upon this, that though he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great city of a little one.

The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement.

By our greatly encreasing the demand and consumption of British manufactures, their price is considerably raised of late years; the advantage is clear profit to Britain, and enables its people better to pay great taxes; and much of it…