The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSHUnless 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.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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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 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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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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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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A belief in God’s universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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