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