Ezra Stiles Quotes

• Our trade opens to all the world.

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  World, Trade

  Ezra STILES (1785). “The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected”, p.49

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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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  Government, Perfect, Infinite

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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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  People, United States, Peculiar

  Ezra STILES (1785). “The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected”, p.150

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• 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.

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  Exercise, Liberty, Unalienable Rights

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• 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.

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  America, Form, Providence

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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.

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  Country, Government, Years

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

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  Aristocracy, Chance, Monarchy

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

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  Israel, Lord, Made

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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 the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

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  West Indies, Virginia, South Carolina

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• 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.

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  Giving, Liberty, United States

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• 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.

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  Military, War, Race

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

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  War, Heaven, Instance

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• Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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  America, Errands, Forgotten

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

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  Rhode Island, Islands, Perfect

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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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  Two, People, Together

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

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  People, Property, Originals

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• 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.

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  Wisdom, Justice, World

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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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  Government, Law, Justice

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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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  Government, Two, People

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

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  Tropical, Elsewhere, Regions

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

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  Thinking, Law, Branches

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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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  Independent, Government, People

  Ezra STILES (1785). “The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected”, p.26

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

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  Wisdom, New York, Constitution

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