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