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.

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

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

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.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.