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America breaks free: "this nation," declared Benjamin Franklin, "was established in spite of [any number of] obstacles, with an expedition, energy, wisdom, and success which the whole history of human affairs has not, hitherto, given an example."
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), July, 2006 by Mark Skousen
This is the greatest revolution the world has ever seen. The power that has for centuries made all Europe tremble, assisted by 20,000 German mercenaries, was humbled by those whom she insulted and injured, because she conceived they had neither spirit nor power to resist or revenge it.
We may therefore with great propriety take leave of England. I wished much for the restoration of peace, but it now was to be a peace of a different kind. I was fond to a folly of our British connection, and it was with infinite regret that I saw the necessity of breaking it: But the extreme cruelty with which we had been treated extinguish'd every thought of returning to it, and separated us forever. England thereby lost limbs that will never grow again. We too suffered greatly, but our losses would soon be repair'd by our good government, our industry, and the fertility of our country.
Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin's eighth-generation grandson, is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor, and author. This article is adapted from a chapter in his latest book, The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin.
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