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

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

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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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Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

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

Ezra Stiles

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

Ezra Stiles

Ezra Stiles

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Born: December 10, 1727

Died: May 12, 1795 (aged 67)

Bio: Ezra Stiles was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was seventh president of Yale College, and one of the founders of Brown University.

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