• Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

    Benjamin Franklin: Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
    Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.368, Hackett Publishing