Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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 Virtue there can be no liberty
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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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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