The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
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. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation,… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Speech at the Ministerial Conference in Boston (at books.google.com/books?id=LXkYAAAAYAAJ&dq=theodore%20parker%20boston%20kidnapping%20gannett&lr=&pg=PA167&ci=70,748,854,407&source=bookclip#v=onepage&q&f=false) — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
