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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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