A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
BENJAMIN RUSHA Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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.
BENJAMIN RUSHTemperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
BENJAMIN RUSH[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.
BENJAMIN RUSHTerror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSHScandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
BENJAMIN RUSHControversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
BENJAMIN RUSHIf 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.
BENJAMIN RUSHWithout Virtue there can be no liberty
BENJAMIN RUSHThe 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.
BENJAMIN RUSHA 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]. . .
BENJAMIN RUSHMothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSHI have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
BENJAMIN RUSHIf 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.
BENJAMIN RUSHA pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSH