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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.

Benjamin Rush

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Community Law Names
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Country Doe School
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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Children Mean Mind
If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
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Death Life Mean Son
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Evil Mother School
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity Republic Strong
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
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Justice Patriotism Support
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Knowing Men Rights
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Book Men Patriotic
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Constitution Privilege Religious Special
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Democracy Government Simple
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
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Bible God Religious

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