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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Benjamin Rush

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Controversy Errors Fear
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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Bipolar Extravagance House
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
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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Bible Reading School
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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Anticipate Command Freedom
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
Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Constitutional Convention Done Nations
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
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Blessing Independence Day Liberty
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
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Patriotic Perfect Wise
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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Children Mean Mind

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

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