Clergyman

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

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

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

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.

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

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.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

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

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

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

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.

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

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

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

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

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.