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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Benjamin Rush

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Frozen Hot Water
[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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Community Law Names
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Controversy Errors Fear
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Credit Men Pioneers
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
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
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
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christian Failing Republican
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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Bible Christian Education
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
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Bible Reading School
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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Beer Humorous Liquor
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Democracy Government Simple
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
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Patriotic Perfect Wise
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
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 have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Blessing Independence Day Liberty
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
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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Art Dictatorship Religious Time
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 religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Constitution Privilege Religious Special
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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Children Mean Mind
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
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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Believe Inspiration Patriotic
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christianity Republic Strong

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