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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Benjamin Rush

Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Constitutional Convention Done Nations
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.
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Justice Patriotism Support
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
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
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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Animal Men Taken
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
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Knowing Men Rights
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
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
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
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
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
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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Children Mean Mind
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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Bible Christian Education
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

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