25 Quotes by Ezra Stiles

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.