Benjamin Franklin: “The husbandman is in honour there, and even the mechanic, because their employments are useful.”

But when Britain values herself as affording us protection, we desire it may be considered, that we have followed her in all her wars, and joined with her at our own expence against all she thought fit to quarrel with.

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.

The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement.

II. p. 118.--The truth is, that the Indians considered their lands as mere hunting-manors, and not as farms.