Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
BENJAMIN RUSHNow if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ’till he returns to them again.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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