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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

Benjamin Rush

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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Mean Men Savages
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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Bible God Religious
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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Country Doe School
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
[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
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
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Controversy Errors Fear
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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Jesus Patriotic Son
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity Republic Strong
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Bible God Religious
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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Peace Time War
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
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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Bipolar Extravagance House
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
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

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

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