Benjamin Franklin: “Look at your hands!--they are stained with the blood of your relations and your acquaintances.”

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

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.

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…