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.
BENJAMIN RUSHA pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
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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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