All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have … - Ezra Stiles

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Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

Ezra Stiles

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.

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Our trade opens to all the world.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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