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

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

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 rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

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

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

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