Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe 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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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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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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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