In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Benjamin Rush

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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; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

Benjamin Rush

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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Benjamin Rush

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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Benjamin Rush

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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.

Benjamin Rush

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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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Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Benjamin Rush

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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.

Benjamin Rush

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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.

Benjamin Rush

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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Benjamin Rush

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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Benjamin Rush

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Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Benjamin Rush

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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Benjamin Rush

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A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Benjamin Rush

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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.

Benjamin Rush

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

Benjamin Rush

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...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.

Benjamin Rush

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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.

Benjamin Rush

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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.

Benjamin Rush

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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.

Benjamin Rush

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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Benjamin Rush

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