Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
BENJAMIN RUSHWithout the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
BENJAMIN RUSHI anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSHDreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe 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.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
BENJAMIN RUSHIf moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
BENJAMIN RUSHTerror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
BENJAMIN RUSHAs 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.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
BENJAMIN RUSHWe have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
BENJAMIN RUSHScandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
BENJAMIN RUSHThe 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.
BENJAMIN RUSHMothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSHTemperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
BENJAMIN RUSHLet 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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