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 Read Quote
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made. Ezra Stiles Read Quote
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. Ezra Stiles Read Quote
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. Ezra Stiles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. Ezra Stiles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Ezra Stiles Read Quote