Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
BENJAMIN RUSHI have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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 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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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