A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
BENJAMIN RUSHBy 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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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 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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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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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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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