We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
BENJAMIN RUSHLiberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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 American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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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 Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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A belief in God’s universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
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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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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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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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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
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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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