Quotes and Realities
- Jesus
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"If the world hates you [as my followers], keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.... In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
- John 15:18-19, 16:33b (NIV)
- Benjamin Rush
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"I proceed in the next place, to enquire, what mode of education we shall adopt so as to secure to the state all the advantages that are to be derived from the proper instruction of youth; and here I beg leave to remark, that the only foundation for a useful education in 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.... ...the religion I mean to recommend in this place, is that of the New Testament.... ...all its doctrines and precepts are calculated to promote the happiness of society, and the safety and well being of civil government...."
- Benjamin Rush: Educator; Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Surgeon-General of the Continental Army, co-founder of Dickinson College, influential delegate to Pennsylvania state convention for the ratification of the U. S. Federal Constitution, co-author of the Pennsylvania Constitution, Treasurer of the U.S. Mint, Founder and Vice-President of the Philadelphia Bible Society, Founder and President of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, member of the Abolition Society.
Quoted from: Rush, Benjamin, Essays Literary, Moral, Philosophical: Of the mode of Education Proper in a Republic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Thomas and William Bradford, 1806), 8.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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