Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
BENJAMIN RUSHI anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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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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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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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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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