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.
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.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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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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[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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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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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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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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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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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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