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

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

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

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.

Our trade opens to all the world.

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.