I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.