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Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Benjamin Rush

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
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
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
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Democracy Government Simple
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
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Bible Heart Swings
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
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
Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Constitutional Convention Done Nations
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
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
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Evil Mother School
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christian Failing Republican
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
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

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

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