Mania’s premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
BENJAMIN RUSHBy 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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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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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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[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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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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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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