Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSHA Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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If 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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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 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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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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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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A belief in God’s universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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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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