Freedom Quote by 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 differently modeled.” quote by Ezra Stiles — Download Open 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 differently modeled.”

Ezra Stiles

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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)

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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…

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

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

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

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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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