A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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