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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.
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.
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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.
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.
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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.
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
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.
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 Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
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.
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
