A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
BENJAMIN RUSHMothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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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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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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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!
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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.
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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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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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