But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government..

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten..

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere..

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature..

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy..

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the li….

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America..

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made..

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God..

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments..

Our trade opens to all the world..

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of p….

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ….

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the ….

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differentl….

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven..

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents..

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public ….

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom..

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have ….

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people..