Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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