“In contemplating the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican form of government, that is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by the means of the Bible. For this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and those sober and frugal virtues, which constitute the soul of republicanism.”
Benjamin Rush , signer of the Declaration of Independence , member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, professor of medicine, writer, principal founder of Dickinson College, slavery abolitionist, leader in education, and an active Christian
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