A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSHFreedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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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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I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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