Benjamin Franklin: “Enough has happened, one would think, to convince your ministers, that the Americans will fight, and that this is a…”

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…

But if I were in his place, and not otherwise instructed, I should be apt to say, Take your own time, gentlemen.

If the treaty cannot be made as much to your advantage as to ours, don't make it.

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.