As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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