Without Virtue there can be no liberty
BENJAMIN RUSHA simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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A belief in God’s universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
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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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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others.
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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.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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