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…
• 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…
• A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
• 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…
• Our trade opens to all the world.
• 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…
• But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
• Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
• The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
• 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.
• The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
• War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
• We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
• Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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