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.
BENJAMIN RUSHLet us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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.
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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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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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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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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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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