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

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

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

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

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

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.