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

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 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.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

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

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

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