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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

Benjamin Rush

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Real Religion
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Democracy Government Simple
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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Belief Humanity Love Universal
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
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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Book Men Patriotic
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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Animal Men Taken
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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Bible Christian Education
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Blessing Independence Day Liberty
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
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Competition Differences Physician
[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
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Community Law Names
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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Body Madness Mind
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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Believe Inspiration Patriotic
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep
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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Bible Heart Swings
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
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Justice Patriotism Support
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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Lives Scripture Study
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christian Failing Republican
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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Art Dictatorship Religious Time
Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Constitutional Convention Done Nations
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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Art Healing Medicine
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Controversy Errors Fear
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Country Doe School
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers

Without 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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