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

Benjamin Rush

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Evil Mother School
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Country Doe School
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible God Religious
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
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Errors Intelligent Needs
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]. . .
BENJAMIN RUSH

Belief Humanity Love Universal
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Disease Made Physicians
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
BENJAMIN RUSH

Freedom Liberty Morality
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Body Madness Mind
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Justice Patriotism Support
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Animal Men Taken
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible God Religious
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Democracy Government Simple
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
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Credit Men Pioneers
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Competition Differences Physician

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