If the treaty cannot be made as much to your advantage as to ours, don't make it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.
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Yet had I gone at 70, it would have cut off 12 of the most active years of my life, employed too in matters of the greatest importance; but whether I have been doing good or mischief, is for time to discover.
It is with a melancholy regret I think of his death; but to death we are all bound by the irreversible order of nature, and in looking forward to it, there is comfort in being able to reflect--that we have not lived in vain, and that all…
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.
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.
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…
To strangers he was cold and reserved; but where he was intimate, no man indulged to more pleasantry and good humour.
Under such circumstances, freedom may often prove a misfortune to himself, and prejudicial to society.
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