Benjamin Franklin: “The unhappy man, who has long been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the…”

This Indian knew how to set a true value upon a pair of spectacles: for undoubtedly if those glasses were not so plentiful, and only a few of them could be found, they would, on account of their great use, bear the same price with…

The rest depends on a man's own industry and virtue.

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…

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.