Ezra Stiles Quotes
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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…
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The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
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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…
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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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…
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Our trade opens to all the world.
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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…
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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
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The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
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But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
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The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
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War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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