The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSHBeer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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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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