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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.

Benjamin Rush

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Cases Revolution War
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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Children Mean Mind
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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Body Madness Mind
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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Mean Men Savages
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Frozen Hot Water
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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Belief Humanity Love Universal
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Controversy Errors Fear
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.
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Patriotic Perfect Wise
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Democracy Government Simple
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
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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Art Dictatorship Religious Time
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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Bible God Religious
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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Animal Men Taken

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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