Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. … - Benjamin Rush

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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

Benjamin Rush

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. . . He must be taught to amass wealth, but it must be only to increase his power of contributing to the wants and demands of the state. . . [Education] can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the Legislature.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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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