Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.
Benjamin FranklinMany a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
Benjamin FranklinIf Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
Benjamin FranklinIf a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?
Benjamin Franklin