Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ’till he returns to them again.
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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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[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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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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