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.
BENJAMIN RUSHScandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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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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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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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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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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