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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Our trade opens to all the world.
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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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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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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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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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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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Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
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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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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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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.