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

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. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.

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.

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.

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

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

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