Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSHPatriotism 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.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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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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