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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.

Benjamin Rush

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity Republic Strong
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Democracy Government Simple
Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Constitutional Convention Done Nations
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
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Constitution Privilege Religious Special
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.
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Believe Inspiration Patriotic
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Bible God Religious
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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Mean Men Savages
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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Bible God Religious
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep
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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Body Madness Mind
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
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
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
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion

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