top of page
"There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more America quotes

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."

"I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?"
Explore more quotes by Ezra Stiles

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

"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."

"There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America."

"It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled."

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

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

"In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom."

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