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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.

Benjamin Rush

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 RUSH

Competition Differences Physician
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
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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Justice Patriotism Support
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Blessing Independence Day Liberty
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Knowing Men Rights
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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Children Mean Mind
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
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Patriotic Perfect Wise
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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Animal Men Taken
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible God Religious
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
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Believe Inspiration Patriotic
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christian Failing Republican
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Frozen Hot Water
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Constitution Privilege Religious Special
Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bipolar Extravagance House
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible Reading School

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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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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