Benjamin Rush Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• 'Tis done. We have become a nation.
• [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…
• Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
• 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…
• I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
• Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
• The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
• Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
• By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
• Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
• Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
• I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
• 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…
• A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
• Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
• The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
• 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…
• Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

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