Benjamin Rush on simple
Benjamin Rush43 quotes“A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.”
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush 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 RushBenjamin Rush The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Without Virtue there can be no liberty
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush [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.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep – anybody can win, if he be the soul entry. Unfortunately, in every field.
Chinmayananda SaraswatiChinmayananda Saraswati My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.
Kevin HartKevin Hart Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.
George BurnsGeorge Burns I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
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