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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

Benjamin Rush

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
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
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Disease Made Physicians
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
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
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Competition Differences Physician
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Real Religion
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Controversy Errors Fear
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Frozen Hot Water
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Education Mean Patriotic
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Body Madness Mind
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Credit Men Pioneers
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
BENJAMIN RUSH

Freedom Liberty Morality
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Christianity Republic Strong
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Mean Men Savages
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Knowing Men Rights

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