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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.

Benjamin Rush

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Frozen Hot Water
If 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 RUSH

Death Life Mean Son
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Animal Men Taken
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Anticipate Command Freedom
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.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Inspiration Patriotic
Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
BENJAMIN RUSH

Beer Humorous Liquor
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Children Mean Mind
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 RUSH

Art Dictatorship Religious Time
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Evil Mother School
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Bible God Religious
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Cases Revolution War
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Credit Men Pioneers
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Believe Real Religion
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Book Men Patriotic
Tis done. We have become a nation.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Constitutional Convention Done Nations

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