Ezra Stiles

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. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#civil #civil government #equity #founded #government

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

— Ezra Stiles

#conducted #governments #infinite #monarchy #most

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. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #civil #except #forms #mankind

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

— Ezra Stiles

#chinese #civil #civil government #empire #even

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

— Ezra Stiles

#island #legislature #most #originally #perfect

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

— Ezra Stiles

#indians #numerous #regions #tropical

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

#each #effectually #find #gives #liberty

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

#arises #being #branch #dictates #higher

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

— Ezra Stiles

#bill #branch #constituents #every #his

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#errand #forgotten #grand #into #never