Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe 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!
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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[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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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]. . .
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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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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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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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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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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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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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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