By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
BENJAMIN RUSH
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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