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 Stiles)

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 Stiles

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