Ezra Stiles Quotes

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

Ezra Stiles

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• Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Children
  • Education
  • Independent

• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Ideas
  • Independent
  • Company

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Question
  • Party
  • Independent

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Challenge
  • Independent

• Aristocracy is always cruel.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Cruel
  • Aristocracy

• I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Independent
  • Equality
  • Voting

• I'm an independent artist, but I do have a good business relationship with Lego, since I'm a unique customer. They're aware of what I'm doing. A painter may not have a relationship with a paint maker, but there's only one company that makes Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Good
  • May
  • Business

• I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Stop
  • Couple

• I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Independent
  • Decisions

• You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

  

  Tablo
  • You
  • Independent
  • Succeed

• I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Always
  • Independent
  • Even

• I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Independent
  • Find
  • British

• Unfortunately, so far... a truly background independent formulation of string theory has not been achieved... It is often called the search for M theory...

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Independent
  • Search

• I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'

  

  Max Brooks
  • Live
  • Job
  • Book

• All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness. At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find a being which immediately recognises itself, and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Experiences
  • Reflections
  • Self-Consciousness

• The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

  

  Michael Badnarik
  • World
  • Government
  • Sand

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

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Independent
  • Governments
  • Aristocracy