Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
Benjamin Rush
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Benjamin Rush
Age: 67 †
Born: 1746
Born: January 7
Died: 1813
Died: April 19
Chemist
Physician
Politician
Psychiatrist
Scientist
Slaveholder
University Teacher
Writer
Byberry
Philadelphia
World
Schools
Seeds
Exists
Plant
Evil
Mother
School
Mothers
Good
Nearly
More quotes by Benjamin Rush
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
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
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
Benjamin Rush
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Benjamin Rush
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
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
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Benjamin Rush
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
Benjamin Rush
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
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
Benjamin Rush
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
Benjamin Rush
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Benjamin Rush
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
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
Benjamin Rush
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.
Benjamin Rush
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Benjamin Rush
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
Benjamin Rush
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.
Benjamin Rush
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