Ezra Stiles

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

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

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.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.