Benjamin Franklin: “That every medium of trade should have an intrinsic value, which paper-money has not.”

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

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

Few of their Children in the Country learn English . . . The Signs in our Streets have Inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only [their language] . . . In short, unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned…

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.