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

~Ezra Stiles

Topics: Benevolence Governments Infinite Monarchy Most Perfect Possible Wisdom

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

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Topics: Aristocracy Better Better Chance Chance Elective Hereditary Monarchy Stand Than Whether

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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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Topics: Cannot Chinese Civil Empire Even Government Hundred Million Multitude People Two Without

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

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Topics: Above All Nations American Hath He High His Israel Lord Made Nations Shall Which

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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.

~Ezra Stiles

Topics: Body Conscience Enjoyment Exercise Free Interest Judgment Liberty Mankind Private Right Themselves Truly Unalienable Unite

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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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Topics: America Forgotten Grand Never

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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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Topics: Accounts American Asia Certain Collected Combined Conclusions Few Indians Kind Lead May Northeast People Same Scattered Together Two Us

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

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Topics: Elsewhere Indians Numerous Regions Tropical

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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.

~Ezra Stiles

Topics: America Believing Diffusion English Far General Increase Others Population Produce Reasons States Surpass Ultimately United United States Will

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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.

~Ezra Stiles

Topics: America Been Civil Except Forms Mankind Providence Realized Reserved Seems Tried

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: November 29th, 1727

Died: May 12th, 1795

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