Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
BENJAMIN RUSHChristianity is the only true and perfect religion.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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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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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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[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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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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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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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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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