Ezra stiles

Our trade opens to all the world.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

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...

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

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.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

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.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

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