From Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), Founding Father of the United States, renowned polymath, author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat (and you seriously think there’s not enough hours in your day), Information to Those Who Would Remove to America (1782):
Much less is it adviseable for a Person to go thither [to America], who has no other Quality to recommend him but his Birth. In Europe it has indeed its Value; but it is a Commodity that cannot be carried to a worse Market than that of America, where people do not inquire concerning a Stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?
