Ezra Stiles Government Quotations

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

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

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.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

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.