The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSHControversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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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 Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
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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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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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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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