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Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

Benjamin Rush

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Mean Men Savages
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Body Madness Mind
The only foundation for . . . 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

Bible God Religious
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christian Failing Republican
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Animal Men Taken
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible Reading School
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Dies Scandal
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Democracy Government Simple
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Frozen Hot Water
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Constitution Privilege Religious Special
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
BENJAMIN RUSH

Beer Humorous Liquor
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Cases Revolution War
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Death Life Mean Son
A belief in God’s universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
BENJAMIN RUSH

Belief Humanity Love Universal
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Children Mean Mind

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

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Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

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