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Colony Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money…
- We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies…
- The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies…
- [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the…
- A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the…
- If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be…
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