Benjamin Rush Quotes

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.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

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

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

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

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

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

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

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

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.

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

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment

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.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

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.

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!

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

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

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

'Tis done. We have become a nation.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

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.

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

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

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

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

[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.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.