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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

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 RUSH

Mean Men Savages
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Credit Men Pioneers
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep
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
Tis done. We have become a nation.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Constitutional Convention Done Nations
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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Art Healing Medicine
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

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
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 always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity Republic Strong
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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Errors Intelligent Needs
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
[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 RUSH

Community Law Names
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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Belief Humanity Love Universal
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Knowing Men Rights
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Disease Made Physicians

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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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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