Benjamin Franklin: “I don't doubt at all, that if the legislature repeal the stamp-act, the colonies will acquiesce in the authority.”

But such, it seems, is the unhappiness of human nature, that our passions, when violent, often are too hard for the united force of reason, duty, and religion.

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…

By our greatly encreasing the demand and consumption of British manufactures, their price is considerably raised of late years; the advantage is clear profit to Britain, and enables its people better to pay great taxes; and much of it…

Believing therefore, that it is my duty, I shall honestly speak my mind in the following paper.