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BENJAMIN RUSHIf moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
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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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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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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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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 American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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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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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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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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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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