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

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

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

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

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.

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