Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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.
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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
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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 Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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