Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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.

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

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

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

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.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.