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

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

Our trade opens to all the world.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

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

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

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.