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Ezra Stiles Inspirational Quotes (11)

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The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
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The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
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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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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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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.
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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.
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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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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
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