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.

Our trade opens to all the world.

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

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

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.

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.