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 RUSHMania’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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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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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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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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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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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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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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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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