Ezra Stiles Quotes

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

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.

Our trade opens to all the world.

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

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

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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