Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
BENJAMIN RUSHIf 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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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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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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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 Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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