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.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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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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[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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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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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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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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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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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