"[T]he 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."

-- Benjamin Rush, 1801, prominent physician and professor of chemistry in Philadelphia, writer, educator, founder of Dickinson College, humanitarian, outspoken critic of slavery, founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.