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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Benjamin Rush

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Errors Intelligent Needs
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Evil Mother School
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible God Religious
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Death Life Mean Son
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Peace Time War
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Justice Patriotism Support
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Constitution Privilege Religious Special
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Animal Men Taken
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christian Failing Republican
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Patriotic Perfect Wise
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Knowing Men Rights
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Inspiration Patriotic
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Dream Ideas Sleep
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Art Healing Medicine
Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bipolar Extravagance House

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