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Information to Those Who Would Remove to America Quotes by Benjamin Franklin: Context & Meanings

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1784 Franklin pamphlet advising prospective European emigrants

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Industry, labor, economic expectation, law, liberty, responsibility and practical preparation for emigration.

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“America is the Land of Labour”

Benjamin Franklin

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Franklin rejects European fantasies of effortless prosperity in eighteenth-century North America, emphasizing that newcomers should expect productive labor rather than automatic wealth or patronage.

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Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. This is historical emigration advice written for Europeans and is not a claim about present-day U.S. labor or immigration conditions.

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“he must work and be industrious to live.”

Benjamin Franklin

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Franklin tells prospective emigrants without inherited wealth that livelihood would depend on work and industry, directly countering expectations of effortless advancement after arrival.

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Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The lowercase opening is retained because this is a clause from Franklin’s longer sentence about strangers, law, liberty and industry.

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“every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry.”

Benjamin Franklin

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Franklin presents secure enjoyment of earned returns as one advantage he associated with laws and liberty in the North America of his period.

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Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The statement is eighteenth-century description and advocacy, not modern financial, employment or immigration guidance.

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1784 Franklin pamphlet advising prospective European emigrants

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