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.
BENJAMIN RUSHLet 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.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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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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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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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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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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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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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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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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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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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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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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