Benjamin Rush Quotes

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• Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
• 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…
• The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue…
• Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion...
• 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…
• Without Virtue there can be no liberty
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

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