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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 Rush

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Bible God Religious
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 Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
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Community Law Names
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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Jesus Patriotic Son
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Blessing Independence Day Liberty
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
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 great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
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Bible Reading School
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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Book Men Patriotic
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
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
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Democracy Government Simple
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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Peace Time War
Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Constitutional Convention Done Nations

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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