Quotes and Realities
- In God Is Our Help
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"Give us aid against the enemy for the help of man is worthless. With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies."
- Psalm 60:11-12 (NIV)
- Benjamin Rush
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"I cannot help remarking in this place, that [C]hristianity exerts the most friendly influence upon science, as well as upon the morals and manners of mankind. ... I believe that the greatest discoveries in science have been made by [C]hristian philosophers, and that there is the most knowledge in those countries where there is the most [C]hristianity. If this remark be well founded, then those philosophers who reject [C]hristianity, and those [C]hristians, whether parents or school-masters, who neglect the religious instruction of their children and pupils, reject and neglect the most effectual means of promoting knowledge in our country." [Note: Emphasis is Dr. Rush's]
- 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: Thoughts Upon Female Education, Accommodated to the Present State of Society, Manners, and Government, in the United States Of America (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Thomas and William Bradford, 1806), 83-84.
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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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