The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSHScandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Now 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.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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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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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
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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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