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.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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 Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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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.
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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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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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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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 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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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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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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