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
men knowing rights
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
mean men practice
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations
kings father men
In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?
mean men savages
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
taken men animal
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.
men pioneers credit
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
book patriotic men
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
authors generally literary men pursuits scholars
Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
mean patriotic government
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.
wise patriotic perfect
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.
children mean mind
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
mind body madness
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
house bipolar extravagance
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
dream sleep ideas
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.