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Ezra Stiles was a prominent American educator and theologian, serving as the president of Yale College from 1778 to 1795. He is recognized for his contributions to the advancement of higher education in the United States and his efforts to reform the curriculum at Yale. Stiles was also a significant figure in the American Revolution and a fervent abolitionist.

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

People Originals Property

Author:Ezra Stiles

“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.”

Years Firsts Country Government Spirit Four Changed Thousand Succeed Series Injustice Thousand Years Conquest

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

People States United Lord United States Holy Obligation Peculiar

Book:The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected

Source: The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected

“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.”

Body Interest Liberty Mankind Exercise Judgment Conscience Enjoyment Unalienable Rights

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

Wisdom New York Higher Constitution Maryland

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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.”

People Kind May Two Together Certain Accounts Conclusion Asia American Indian

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

Government Perfect Infinite Monarchy Benevolence

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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.”

Has Beens Seems America Form Mankind Providence Reserved

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“Our trade opens to all the world.”

Book:The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected

Source: The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected

“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.”

Government Law Justice Policy Equity Institute Jurisprudence

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

People Two Government Millions Hundred Chinese Empires Multitudes

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

Regions Elsewhere Tropical

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

People May Government Earth Greater Independent Dominion Aristocracy Hereditary

Book:The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected

Source: The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected

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

Perfect Islands Legislature Connecticut Rhode Island

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“Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.”

America Forgotten Errands

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

Made Nations Lord Israel

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

Has Beens War Heaven Instance

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

Chance Monarchy Aristocracy Hereditary Aristocratic

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

Thinking Law Bills Branches Constituents

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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.”

“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.”

Giving States Pleasure United Liberty United States Policy Give Me Nonconformity Secured

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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.”

Wells Trade Constant West South Profit British Loser Continents Virginia Merchants Carolina South Carolina West Indies

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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.”

World Humans May Has Beens Said Wisdom Justice Institutions Imperfect Human Society

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About the Author

Born: December 10, 1727
Died: May 12, 1795
Known for: Educator
Quotes: 23

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