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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.
Benjamin Rush
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Benjamin Rush
Age: 67 †
Born: 1746
Born: January 7
Died: 1813
Died: April 19
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There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.
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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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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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A simple democracy is the devil's own government.
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In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?
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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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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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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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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.
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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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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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