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

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

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.

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

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

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.

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