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Ezra Stiles [1727-1795] American

Rank: 103
Clergyman, Educator

Ezra Stiles was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was seventh president of Yale College, and one of the founders of Brown University.

Chance, Government, Wisdom

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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.	Wisdom	101
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.		102
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.	Chance	103
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.	Government	104
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.		105
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.		106
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.		107
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.		108
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.		109
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.		110
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.		111
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.		112
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.		113
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.		114
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.		115
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.		116
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.		117
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.		118
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.		119
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.		120
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.		121
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.		122
Our trade opens to all the world.		123

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