Ezra Stiles Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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