Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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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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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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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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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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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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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[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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