Benjamin Rush Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• 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 Rush

  Justice, Support, Patriotism

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

• 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. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.

  Benjamin Rush

  Country, Religious, Character

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

• The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Wise, Teaching

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