Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
BENJAMIN RUSHFreedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ’till he returns to them again.
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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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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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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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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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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 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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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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