The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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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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Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
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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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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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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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[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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