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.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe 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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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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 American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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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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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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