The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
BENJAMIN RUSHI have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
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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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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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]. . .
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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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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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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By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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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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Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others.
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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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