Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSHWithout the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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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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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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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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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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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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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 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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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