Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
BENJAMIN RUSHWithout religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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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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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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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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