Benjamin Franklin: “Cruel parsimony! to refuse the charity of a little understanding, when God had given you so much, and the assembly…”

You are a member of that parliament, and have formed part of that majority, which has condemned my native country to destruction.

For a piece of baize, or a pot full of brandy, or the like, they could get a piece of ground, which at present would be worth more than 290l. sterling." Ib.

No part of these monies was ever paid by the proprietaries, or ever raised on their estates; and therefore they can have no pretence of right to a voice in the disposition of them.

If the English would advance one step further, or cover themselves where they are, it must be at once, by one large step over the mountains, with a numerous and military colony.