Benjamin Franklin: “Why were those healing instructions so long withheld and concealed from the people?”

Strong forts on the lakes, the Ohio, &c. may, at the same time they secure our present frontiers, serve to defend new colonies settled under their protection; and such colonies would also mutually defend and support such forts, and better…

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

The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement.

Public spirit really exists there, and has great effects.