Benjamin Rush Quotes

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• ...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…
• The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
• 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…
• 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…
• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
• A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
• Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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