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Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

Benjamin Rush

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

Christianity Republic Strong
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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Bible Christian Education
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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Animal Men Taken
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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Children Mean Mind
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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Education Mean Patriotic
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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Death Life Mean Son
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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Jesus Patriotic Son
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 RUSH

Country Doe School
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
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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Bible Reading School
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
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Lives Scripture Study
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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Book Men Patriotic

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

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