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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

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

— Ezra Stiles

#conducted #governments #infinite #monarchy #most

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

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

— Ezra Stiles

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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#i #morning #obsessed #radio #start

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

— Ezra Stiles

#founded #higher #maryland #new #new york

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

#carolina #constant #continent #indeed #indies

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

#especially #original #people #power #property