Benjamin Franklin: “In America, salaries, where indispensible, are extremely low; but much of the public business is done gratis.”

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.

Few of their Children in the Country learn English . . . The Signs in our Streets have Inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only [their language] . . . In short, unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned…

The gaining of the back Indian trade from the French, by the navigation of the lakes, &c. would of itself greatly weaken our enemies:--it being now their principal support, it seems highly probable, that in time they must be subjected to…

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.