Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
BENJAMIN RUSHDreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
-
-
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 RUSH -
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
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 -
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
BENJAMIN RUSH -
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
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 -
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