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• Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

  Benjamin Rush

  Fear, Errors, Controversy

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• Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Scripture, Study, Our Lives

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.95

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• Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment

  Benjamin Rush

  Humorous, Beer, Liquor

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• 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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• By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Heart, Swings

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• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, God, Religious

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.93

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• I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

  Benjamin Rush

  Strong, Christianity, Republicanism

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813”

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• Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

  Benjamin Rush

  Truth, Ignorance, Convince Us

  "Medical Inquiries and Observations".

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• A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .

  Benjamin Rush

  Humanity, Universal Love, Belief

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

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• [W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

  Benjamin Rush

  Law, Names, Community

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters”

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• I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.

  Benjamin Rush

  Daughter, Tombstone, Son

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• I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Religious, Strong

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• The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

  Benjamin Rush

  War, Drama, Government

  Letter to Price, May 25, 1786.

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• As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

  Benjamin Rush

  Time, Peace, War

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

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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.

  Benjamin Rush

  Differences, Competition, Physicians

  Letter to Dr David Hosack, 15 August (1810)

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• The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

  Benjamin Rush

  Art, Healing, Medicine

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• I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Education, Sex

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

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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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  Justice, Support, Patriotism

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

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• 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”

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• We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

  Benjamin Rush

  Physicians, Disease, Made

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• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

  Benjamin Rush

  Wise, Patriotic, Perfect

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

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• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Country, Europe

  "Letters".

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• A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

  Benjamin Rush

  Men, Pioneers, Credit

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• 'Tis done. We have become a nation.

  Benjamin Rush

  Done, Constitutional Convention, Nations

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters”

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• Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Country, School, Doe

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

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