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Government Quotes by Benjamin Rush
- 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…
- The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue…
- The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form…
- 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…
- The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of…
- Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
- We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal…
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- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
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- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
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