Without Virtue there can be no liberty
BENJAMIN RUSHChristianity 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.
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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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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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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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