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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Our trade opens to all the world.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.