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.

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

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

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.

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.