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.
BENJAMIN RUSHChristianity is the only true and perfect religion.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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 Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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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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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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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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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
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