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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.

Benjamin Rush

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
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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Book Men Patriotic
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Blessing Independence Day Liberty
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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Anticipate Command Freedom
Patriotism 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.
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Justice Patriotism Support
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Democracy Government Simple
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Bible God Religious
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity Republic Strong
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Frozen Hot Water
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christian Failing Republican
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
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
Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Constitutional Convention Done Nations
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
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
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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Errors Intelligent Needs
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
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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Animal Men Taken
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Knowing Men Rights
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Constitution Privilege Religious Special
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
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
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Bible Heart Swings
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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Cases Revolution War

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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