I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
BENJAMIN RUSHMothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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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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As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
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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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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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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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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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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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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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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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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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