Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rushwas a Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, educator and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 January 1746
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
art healing medicine
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
real believe religion
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
war drama government
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.
men pioneers credit
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
done constitutional-convention nations
'Tis done. We have become a nation.
exercise dark garden
...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.
jesus patriotic son
The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!...My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins.
scandal dies
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
education religious growing-up
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.
justice support patriotism
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.
law names community
[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
4th-of-july blessing liberty
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
bible heart swings
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.
differences competition world
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.