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 RUSHThe Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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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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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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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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[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 Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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 American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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