Benjamin Rush Quotes

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.

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.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

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.

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.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.