Accounts Quote by Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

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

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

Our trade opens to all the world.

— Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

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

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

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

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

— Ezra Stiles

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

— Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles