Ezra Stiles
Ezra Stiles
Ezra Stileswas an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was seventh president of Yale College...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth29 November 1727
CountryUnited States of America
people originals property
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
wisdom justice world
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.
west-indies virginia south-carolina
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.
giving liberty united-states
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.
military war america
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. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.
thinking law branches
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
aristocracy chance monarchy
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
war heaven instance
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
exercise liberty body
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.
world trade
Our trade opens to all the world.