Benjamin Franklin: “The people will all spin, and work for themselves, in their own houses.”

But if I were in his place, and not otherwise instructed, I should be apt to say, Take your own time, gentlemen.

I wish old England were as happy in its government, but I do not see it.

If the treaty cannot be made as much to your advantage as to ours, don't make it.

They have no profitable appointments, but a mere payment of daily wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their expences, so that having no chance for great places and enormous salaries or pensions, as in some countries, there is no…