[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.
BENJAMIN RUSHTis done. We have become a nation.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
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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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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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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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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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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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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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