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.

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.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

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

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.