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.
BENJAMIN RUSHTemperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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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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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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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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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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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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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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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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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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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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