Benjamin Franklin: “There is nothing I wish for more than to see it amicably and equitably settled.”

It is with a melancholy regret I think of his death; but to death we are all bound by the irreversible order of nature, and in looking forward to it, there is comfort in being able to reflect--that we have not lived in vain, and that all…

Yet had I gone at 70, it would have cut off 12 of the most active years of my life, employed too in matters of the greatest importance; but whether I have been doing good or mischief, is for time to discover.

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

If the treaty cannot be made as much to your advantage as to ours, don't make it.