Benjamin Rush famous quotes

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; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Religious #Art #Healing

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Democrat

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Fear #Errors #Controversy

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

#Intelligent #Errors #Needs

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

[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

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

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

#Mean #Son #Life And Death

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Bible #God #Christian

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Book #Patriotic #Men

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.
-- Benjamin Rush

#School #Mean #Patriotic

...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Exercise #Dark #Garden

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

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
-- Benjamin Rush

#4th Of July #Blessing #Liberty

Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment
-- Benjamin Rush

#Beer #Liquor #Nourishment

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

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Real #Believe #Religion

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Simple #Government #Democracy

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

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, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic social and political happiness.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Education #Country #Europe

'Tis done. We have become a nation.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Done #Constitutional Convention

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

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Mother #School #Evil

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Physicians #Disease #Made

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Hell #Gates Of Hell #Gates

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Scandal

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

#Art #Healing #Medicine

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Leaving #Religion #Foundation

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 Virtue there can be no liberty
-- Benjamin Rush

#Freedom #Liberty #Virtue

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

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion...
-- Benjamin Rush

#Bible #God #Religious

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Book #School #Patriotic

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

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Mean #Patriotic #Government

The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!...My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Jesus #Patriotic #Son

Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations
-- Benjamin Rush

#Mean #Men #Medicine

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

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

#Taken #Animal #Men

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. 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. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Truth #Ignorance #Leader

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

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?
-- Benjamin Rush

#Kings #Father #Men

Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Education #Religious #Growing Up

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Dream #Sleep #Ideas

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

#Men #Pioneers #Credit

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

#Water #Hot #Frozen

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

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 #Law

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

I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Freedom #Command #Anticipate

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

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
-- Benjamin Rush

#House #Bipolar #Extravagance

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
-- Benjamin Rush

#War #Revolution #American Revolution

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Men #Rights #Knowing

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

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Mind #Body #Madness

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Christian #Republican #Failing