I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
BENJAMIN RUSHA simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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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.
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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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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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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.
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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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