Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
BENJAMIN RUSHMania’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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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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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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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.
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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against 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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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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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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