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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.

Benjamin Rush

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
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity Republic Strong
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
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
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Knowing Men Rights
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Blessing Independence Day Liberty
[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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Community Law Names
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
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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Cases Revolution War
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
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Evil Mother School
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion
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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