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 RUSHWe have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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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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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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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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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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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.
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