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

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

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.

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

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.