Benjamin Franklin: “I hold with you that it was wrong; may I add, that all descending honours are wrong and absurd; that the honour of…”

But it seems not of so much importance, whether the fighting be done by John or Thomas, or the tax paid by William or Charles.

And as Canada is chiefly supported by that trade, if it could be drawn into the hands of the English (as it might be if the Indians were supplied on moderate terms, and by honest traders appointed by and acting for the public) that alone…

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…

If the English would advance one step further, or cover themselves where they are, it must be at once, by one large step over the mountains, with a numerous and military colony.