The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
BENJAMIN RUSHFreedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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]. . .
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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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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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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