"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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Source : Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

Benjamin Rush

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“A little bit of this town goes a very long way.”
“Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.”
“They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.”
“If your business isn't the best quality, it will not succeed.”
“If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply measuring whether or not you were black. So at every moment when we've said, hey, we don't want certain people to vote because they are not educated enough, it is often simply become a way of excluding black and brown people.”

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“The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.”
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
“Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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