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.
BENJAMIN RUSHI have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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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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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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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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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[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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