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
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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.
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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.
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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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But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
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The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
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Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
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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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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.
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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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.
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The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
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The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
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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.