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 →
Our trade opens to all the world.
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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... →
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of... →
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat... →
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and... →
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... →
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).