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

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

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. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.

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.

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

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.