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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.