Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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.
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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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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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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 religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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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By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
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