Benjamin Franklin: “The victorious of this year may be the vanquished of the next.”

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.

With these sentiments he left England; but when, on his arrival in America, he found the war begun, and that there was no receding, no man entered more warmly into the interests of what he then considered as his country, in opposition to…

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.