Benjamin Rush Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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”

• 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.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, God, Religious

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

• Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

  Benjamin Rush

  4th Of July, Blessing, Liberty

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

• Without Virtue there can be no liberty

  Benjamin Rush

  Freedom, Liberty, Morality

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

• We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.

  Benjamin Rush

  Book, Mean, Government

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

• 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”

• There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Government, Democracy

• Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Men, Savages

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

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