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

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.

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.

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

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

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.

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