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Knowledge Quotes by Benjamin Rush
- The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
- 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…
- While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
- 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…
- Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
- 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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