A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSHWe have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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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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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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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