Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSHChristianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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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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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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