The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
BENJAMIN RUSHTerror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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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 Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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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