Ezra Stiles quote: "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 withou...
EZRA STILES

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and juri...
EZRA STILES

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possib...
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A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1...
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There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diff...
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
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The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary ...
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But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in...
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But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislatur...
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Our trade opens to all the world.
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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Caro...
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It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies...
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Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will ...
EZRA STILES

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions...
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War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
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Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
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The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
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The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all man...
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The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
EZRA STILES

The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue.
RYAN STILES

I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and t...
RYAN STILES

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for...
JULIA STILES

We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespear...
JULIA STILES

I like to stay balanced in life, so I don't have to do some radical diet. I love my job, and I o...
JULIA STILES

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this ag...
JULIA STILES

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.
JULIA STILES

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.
RYAN STILES

I think with '10 Things I Hate About You,' I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I res...
JULIA STILES

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage c...
JULIA STILES

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got m...
RYAN STILES

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
JULIA STILES

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance clas...
JULIA STILES

We do have a few players who can contribute and need to contribute; we just need to find the right s...
BRAD STILES

They took it to us in the first half.
BRAD STILES

We were rusty, and it showed this morning, and it definitely showed against Valley. We had a lot of ...
BRAD STILES

We played OK today. The lack of communication slowed us down, and they were missing three starters t...
BRAD STILES

We've scared the leaders a lot so far. It's exciting. I got in on the ground floor of the planning a...
BOB STILES

It's turned out to be great. It's very interesting. We've helped all the venue teams, given them adv...
BOB STILES

Teams can capture where they park, how they spend, what they buy, and use this to market to them eve...
BOB STILES

It's always hard finding buyers. Nobody's beating a path to your door.
BOB STILES

It's on the Black Sea. It was a traditional summer resort for the old Soviet Union. It's at the foot...
BOB STILES

After Opening Ceremonies, we've gone to every venue as it opened, my team. We've helped them open on...
BOB STILES

I turn on the radio. I'm a really big fan of old-fashioned dial radio. I love WNYC and NPR and a...
JULIA STILES

Some of the best projects I've worked on - 'Dexter,' the 'Bourne' series - were ...
JULIA STILES

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in ...
JULIA STILES

We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on ...
JULIA STILES

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyw...
JULIA STILES

The market took the report in context -- which is that it is often distorted by aircraft orders. It ...
JOSH STILES

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'
JULIA STILES

It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn't work ...
JULIA STILES

I don't think it's easy, but if we keep on demanding that we need to have it all, then we'll get the...
JULIA STILES

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.
RYAN STILES

While the volume of spam reaching AOL email inboxes has remained at low levels compared to it's heig...
CHARLES STILES

(Wallace) found all of that stored in the crawl space underneath the house. He thought this would be...
BECKY STILES

When we were working on the house, so many people asked about coming through that one person joked t...
BECKY STILES

Back off or the lizard gets it!
RYAN STILES

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I lov...
JULIA STILES

When you mention Nancy Wittenberg in one sentence and environmental regulation in another, my eyebro...
ERIC STILES

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over t...
JULIA STILES

The view is that the market could withstand a 25 basis point rate hike.
JOSH STILES

There will be no requirement, ever, for not-for-profits who deliver e-mail to AOL members to pay for...
CHARLES STILES

I support freeing Iraqi's from tyranny. I came here to show there are American who support what bush...
RYAN STILES

[I know some of you out there consider athletic contests to be tests of skill, but most who have coa...
JULIA STILES

I'm really happy, like a dream come true for me. Life's good, so I can't complain.
JULIA STILES

It's fun to stay at the Y! M! C! A!
JULIA STILES

If they get a message from a sender that has images and links enabled one day, and another one the n...
CHARLES STILES

I always feel like a goofy little kid.
JULIA STILES

If I'm gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I'll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and gli...
JULIA STILES

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
JULIA STILES

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!
JULIA STILES

What I look for in a guy is passion and ambition and there's nothing sexier than intellect, so hopef...
JULIA STILES

"I don't think it's easy, but if we keep on demanding that we need to have it all, then we'll get th...
JULIA STILES

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
JULIA STILES

I hate the way you talk to me. And the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hat...
JULIA STILES

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird ...
JULIA STILES

I'm not a bitch in real life.
JULIA STILES

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, t...
JULIA STILES

That's not going to be on the tour. It's going to stay a secret.
BECKY STILES

God made death so we'd know when to stop.
STEVEN STILES

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish ...
JULIA STILES

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I wa...
RYAN STILES

I support freeing Iraqis from tyranny.
RYAN STILES

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated....
RYAN STILES

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Ea...
RYAN STILES

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm...
JULIA STILES

I am not a fan of rats or pigeons. In New York City, they have become very confident. When I was a c...
JULIA STILES

I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'Sally's Pigeons' when I first started acting.
JULIA STILES

I'm terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president. I think he's disgusting, h...
JULIA STILES

The true test of a relationship is traveling together.
JULIA STILES

I have intentionally stayed out of that discussion.
CHARLES STILES

We want to make sure that not-for-profits who depend on timely communication with their members get ...
CHARLES STILES

Our focus and goal here is to provide a safer and more secure environment for our consumers, and res...
CHARLES STILES

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me thin...
JULIA STILES

It would probably help my career if I lived in L.A., but I think it would be all-consuming. New York...
JULIA STILES

My musician friends could always practice what they loved doing, but I can't go on a street corn...
JULIA STILES

If he had learned anything from his parents, he learned that business was a matter of relationships.
T.J. STILES

I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still reme...
RYAN STILES

I love the interactive nature of theater. I just craved it. As much as I love working on a film or T...
JULIA STILES

Tonight is a bright night. There's 1.9 million people who watch wildlife in this state. We applaud t...
ERIC STILES

The Builders Association has a perfect track record from my point of view: There's not one environme...
ERIC STILES

It lays to rest, puts aside the argument . . . that the island shouldn't be conserved because it's a...
ERIC STILES

This isn't about whether there will be development or no development. It's about what kind of world ...
ERIC STILES

It's so disappointing it has to come to an end. After having the experience of playing for SMS, an i...
JACKIE STILES

I'm very excited to be chosen by Portland. It's definitely a dream come true to be playing in the WN...
JACKIE STILES

I was really lucky that Coach Hargrove took a chance on me because I feel like Portland has been a g...
JACKIE STILES

My main focus at the start of the season was basically to have the best senior year possible for Sou...
JACKIE STILES

Richard J. McNally, a Harvard clinical research psychologist, considered the "politics of trauma" in...
KRISTINE STILES

It really comes down to the fact that the Fed is saying demand is excessive, ... Until they see enou...
JOSH STILES

The market's starting to look further ahead. There seems to be the sentiment that the economy will c...
JOSH STILES

[The market also benefited from oversold conditions, given that Treasury yields were near three-mont...
JOSH STILES

There are fears the data will be strong and Greenspan will lay the groundwork for tightening. In tha...
JOSH STILES

The bottom line is, agencies will maintain their highest credit rating. Agencies are looking like pr...
JOSH STILES

We should still have a pretty good quarter for consumer spending. January retail sales, excluding au...
JOSH STILES

If the recovery turns out to be even stronger than the market currently thinks, then we'll see some ...
JOSH STILES

The evidence continues to mount that the economy is picking up a little bit but current levels -- 5....
JOSH STILES

The idea that's been gaining currency in the market is the Fed pause theory, meaning that the Fed ra...
JOSH STILES

Consumer sentiment made an extraordinary month-to-month gain and really sparked the selling. The mar...
JOSH STILES

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...
EZRA MILLER

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t...
EZRA POUND

The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into ...
GEORGE EZRA

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND

A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in bi...
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...
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The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You tr...
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we...
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe...
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that...
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap of...
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It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl...
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more in...
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herdi...
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up...
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herdi...
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Look in the Mirror that's your competition".
MEIR EZRA

Difficult roads often road to beautiful destinations.
MEIR EZRA

Live your life happily
MEIR EZRA

Give God your weakness and hell give you its Strength
MEIR EZRA

Be your own hero
MEIR EZRA

Live your Dreams
MEIR EZRA

There is no elevator to the success, You have to take the stairs.
MEIR EZRA

Life is a one time offer, use it well
MEIR EZRA

Failure is Success in Progress
MEIR EZRA

If it is important to you, then you will find a way.
If not you'll find an excuse.
MEIR EZRA

Sharing is the Part of Life
MEIR EZRA

Work hard & Be Proud of what you achieve
MEIR EZRA

Believe is Yourself
MEIR EZRA

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
MEIR EZRA

Sometimes you win, Sometimes you Learn
MEIR EZRA

Every Accomplishment starts with the decision to Try
MEIR EZRA

Don't call it a dream

Call it a Plan
MEIR EZRA

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs
MEIR EZRA

Work Hard Dream Big
MEIR EZRA

When you feel like
Quiting
Think about
Why you Started
MEIR EZRA

Stop Wishing Start Doing
MEIR EZRA

Wake up with determination.
go to bed
with Satisfaction
MEIR EZRA

Don't Stop when you are tried.
Stop
"When you are Done !
MEIR EZRA

Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other People
MEIR EZRA

stay focused and never give up
MEIR EZRA

Life is a journey not a Race
MEIR EZRA

Stars can't shine without Darkness
MEIR EZRA

Good writing is clear thinking made visible
MEIR EZRA

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
EZRA POUND

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
EZRA BOWEN

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow ...
EZRA POUND

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simpl...
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized o...
EZRA POUND

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged on...
EZRA POUND

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can unde...
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You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
EZRA POUND

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly propo...
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition...
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of re...
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is ...
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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Literature is news that STAYS news.
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clo...
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a she...
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse o...
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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or perso...
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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.

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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.

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