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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.

Benjamin Rush

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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Inspiration Patriotic
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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Art Dictatorship Religious Time
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Controversy Errors Fear
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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Mean Men Savages
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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Belief Humanity Love Universal
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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Bible Reading School
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Country Doe School
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christian Failing Republican
Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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Bipolar Extravagance House
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Constitutional Convention Done Nations
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 art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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Art Healing Medicine
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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Competition Differences Physician
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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Education Mean Patriotic

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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