A belief in God’s universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
BENJAMIN RUSHIf 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.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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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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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.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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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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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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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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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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