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 RUSHMirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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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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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.
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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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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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I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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