Ezra Stiles (December 10, 1727 – May 12, 1795) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was president of Yale College (1778–1795). Read full biography of Ezra Stiles →
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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... →
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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... →
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... →
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately... →
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.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
Ezra Stiles (December 10, 1727 – May 12, 1795) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was president of Yale College (1778–1795).