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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.

Benjamin Rush

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Disease Made Physicians
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]. . .
BENJAMIN RUSH

Belief Humanity Love Universal
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Controversy Errors Fear
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Real Religion
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Peace Time War
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Death Life Mean Son
Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bipolar Extravagance House
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
BENJAMIN RUSH

Beer Humorous Liquor
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christian Failing Republican
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Body Madness Mind
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christianity Republic Strong
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Cases Revolution War
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible God Religious
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Democracy Government Simple
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Inspiration Patriotic
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Education Mean Patriotic

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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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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