Benjamin Rush Quotes

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

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.

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

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.

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

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!

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

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.