Ezra Stiles Quotes

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

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. - Ezra Stiles

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

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. - Ezra Stiles

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

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

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

Our trade opens to all the world. - Ezra Stiles

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