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

— Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

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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

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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

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

— Ezra Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

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If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

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

— Ezra Stiles

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