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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Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
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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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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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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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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 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.
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With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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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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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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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.