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Ezra Stiles

Ezra Stiles

American Clergyman

Born: Dec 10, 1727

Died: May 12, 1795

America Been Civil Government People Wisdom

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

Wisdom Benevolence Possible Perfect Most Governments Infinite Monarchy

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. Ezra Stiles

Never Errand America Forgotten Grand

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. Ezra Stiles

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

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

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. Ezra Stiles

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. Ezra Stiles

Property People Power Seized Aggregate Original Resides

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. Ezra Stiles

Nature Natural Society Seem Superiority Higher Arises Another Branch Dictates Being Interest Interested Then Should Whose Universal

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. Ezra Stiles

Me Liberty States Pleasure Though Secured Find Gives Somewhat Policies Modeled Public Each United United States Differently

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. Ezra Stiles

Rest Profit Virginia Indeed Carolina Constant Some Indies Merchants Well Trade Continent Were Losers West South South Carolina Received British

Our trade opens to all the world. Ezra Stiles

World Our All The World Opens Trade

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