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

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.

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

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

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.

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