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

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

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

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

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

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 right.

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. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.