Without Virtue there can be no liberty
BENJAMIN RUSHWithout religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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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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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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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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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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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[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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