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 manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
Benjamin Franklin... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
Benjamin FranklinEvil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
Benjamin Franklin