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.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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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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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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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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.
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