25 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Our trade opens to all the world.

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.