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

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

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

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.

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

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

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.