It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
More Quotes by Ezra Stiles
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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.
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
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.
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.