Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
BENJAMIN RUSH
BENJAMIN RUSH
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Benjamin Rush43 quotes“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.”
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Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush 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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Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush 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.
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Adam WeishauptAdam Weishaupt There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Adam RodriguezAdam Rodriguez I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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