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.
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.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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 Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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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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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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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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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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