Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
BENJAMIN RUSHA simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
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I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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[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.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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