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Ezra Stiles Biography

Ezra Stiles (December 10, 1727 – May 12, 1795) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was seventh president of Yale College (1778–1795), and one of the founders of Brown University.

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Our trade opens to all the world.

Opens, Trade, World

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

Empire, Government, Multitude, People, Subsist, Two

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

Aristocracy, Chance, Elective, Hereditary, Monarchy

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.

Carolina, Indies, Represented, South Carolina, Virginia, West Indies

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

Dominions, Earth, Government, Independent, Monarchical, People

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.

America, Form, Forms, Mankind, Providence

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

Peculiar, People, United, United States

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.

Conclusions, People, Together, Two

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

Heaven, Instance, Instances, War

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

Affect, Branches, Law, Read, Thinking

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

Carried, Justice, Perhaps, Wisdom, World

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

Elsewhere, Indians, Regions, Tropical

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

Original, Originals, People, Power, Property, Seized

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. Most of the states, of all ages. . . have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history. . . the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.

America, Description, Mankind, Military, States, War

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

America, Errand, Errands, Forgotten, Let

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