By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
BENJAMIN RUSHMania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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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 religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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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 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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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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