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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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 Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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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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Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others.
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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 American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
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Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
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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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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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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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