Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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.
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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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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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The 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.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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