Benjamin Franklin: “Why was the bringing and the delivery of such orders so long denied?”

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

To strangers he was cold and reserved; but where he was intimate, no man indulged to more pleasantry and good humour.

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.

As it is in my power, as far as my testimony will be regarded, to refute this charge, I think it due to our friendship to do it.