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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.

Benjamin Rush

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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Animal Men Taken
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Errors Intelligent Needs
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Frozen Hot Water
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Dream Ideas Sleep
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible Christian Education
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Cases Revolution War
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christian Failing Republican
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Competition Differences Physician
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Inspiration Patriotic
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Children Mean Mind
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible Heart Swings
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Patriotic Perfect Wise
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Peace Time War
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Art Dictatorship Religious Time
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Knowing Men Rights
[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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Community Law Names

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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