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 liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

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

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

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.

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

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