Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
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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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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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