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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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