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.

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.

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.