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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.