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 RUSHMothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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[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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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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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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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Let 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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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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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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Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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