I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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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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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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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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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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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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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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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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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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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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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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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