Benjamin Franklin: “The ordaining of laws in favour of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the…”

But above all this, the state and circumstances of our settlements render such a measure not only proper and eligible, but absolutely necessary.

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.

But such, it seems, is the unhappiness of human nature, that our passions, when violent, often are too hard for the united force of reason, duty, and religion.

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.