Our trade opens to all the world.

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.

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

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

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

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

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.