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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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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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[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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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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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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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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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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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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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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Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
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