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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Lives Scripture Study
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Constitution Privilege Religious Special
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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Art Healing Medicine
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity Republic Strong
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
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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Bipolar Extravagance House
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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Anticipate Command Freedom
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Frozen Hot Water
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
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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Body Madness Mind
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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Mean Men Savages
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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Believe Inspiration Patriotic
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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Education Mean Patriotic
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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Belief Humanity Love Universal
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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Bible God Religious

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