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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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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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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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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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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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