Ezra Stiles Quotes

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

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

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

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

Our trade opens to all the world.

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

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

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

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.

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

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.