Benjamin Franklin: “While the government is mild and just, while important civil and religious rights are secure, such subjects will be…”

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…

To strangers he was cold and reserved; but where he was intimate, no man indulged to more pleasantry and good humour.

Franklin's hand, in conjunction with his brethren of the learned committee, that compound of fraud and folly was unveiled, and received its death-wound.

As it is in my power, as far as my testimony will be regarded, to refute this charge, I think it due to our friendship to do it.