Ezra Stiles Quotes

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

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• I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

  

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• Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Regions
  • Indians
  • Tropical