Benjamin Franklin: “Such an assembly cannot easily become dangerous to liberty.”

Taxes paid in Britain by the landholder or artificer must enter into and increase the price of the produce of land and manufactures made of it; and great part of this is paid by consumers in the colonies, who thereby pay a considerable…

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…

The rest depends on a man's own industry and virtue.

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