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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

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Community Law Names
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]. . .
BENJAMIN RUSH

Belief Humanity Love Universal
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
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.
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Bible God Religious
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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Cases Revolution War
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 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
Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Lives Scripture Study
As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Peace Time War
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Evil Mother School
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
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
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christianity Republic Strong

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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