With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.- Ezra Stiles
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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 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.
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
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.
Our trade opens to all the world.
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
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.
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
