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Ezra Stiles
American
Clergyman
About the author
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#America
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Will
#Law
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#People
#Power
#Property
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Chance
#Aristocracy
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#War
#Heaven
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 general population of America.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Will
#Population
#English
#America
#states
#United
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 liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Right
#Liberty
#Judgment
#Exercise
#Body
#Interest
#Conscience
#Mankind
#Enjoyment
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#American
#Israel
#Nations
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#People
#May
#Earth
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Wisdom
Our trade opens to all the world.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#World
#Trade
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 has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Years
#First
#Spirit
#Countries
#Conquest
#Injustice
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 of the universal interest.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Being
#Society
#Nature
#Interest
#Superiority
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Infinite
#Wisdom
#Benevolence
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 in America.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#America
#Mankind
#Providence
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 rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Rest
#Trade
#Profit
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#People
#Government
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
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 have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#World
#May
#Society
#Justice
#Wisdom
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
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,
American
Clergyman
#Public
#Liberty
#Pleasure
#states
#United
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 people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#People
#May
#American
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 right.
Ezra Stiles,
American
Clergyman
#Right
#Public
#Policy
#Law
#Government
#Justice