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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.

Benjamin Rush

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christian Failing Republican
Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bipolar Extravagance House
If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Death Life Mean Son
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
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
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christianity Republic Strong
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Real Religion
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
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Evil Mother School
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
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
BENJAMIN RUSH

Freedom Liberty Morality
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Blessing Independence Day Liberty
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Anticipate Command Freedom
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
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
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Country Doe School

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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