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.
BENJAMIN RUSHChristianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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[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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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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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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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 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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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 Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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.
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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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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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