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

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Source : Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

Benjamin Rush

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“Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.”
“Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind.”
“I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.”
“I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.”
“You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.”
“When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.”

Source : Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”
“You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,”
“The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.”

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