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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.

Benjamin Rush

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Book Men Patriotic
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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Justice Patriotism Support
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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Animal Men Taken
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
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.
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Bible Heart Swings
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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Anticipate Command Freedom
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
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.
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Peace Time War
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.
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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
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion
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.
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Frozen Hot Water
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor

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