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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
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Benjamin Rush
Age: 67 †
Born: 1746
Born: January 7
Died: 1813
Died: April 19
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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.
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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.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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.
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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.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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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 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.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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