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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator as well as the founder of Dickinson College. Rush attended the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. His later self-description there was: "He aimed right." He served as Surgeon General of the Continental Army and became a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania.

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There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.

Aid, Democracy, Done, Government, Mean, State

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.

Taken, Animal, Men, Man, Happy, Natural

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Effects, Foundation, Leaving, National, Religion

A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .

Humanity, Universal Love, Belief, Establishes, Happiness, Restore

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

Christian, Education, Hours, Private, Sex

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

Dream, Dreams, Ideas, Incoherent, Partial, Sleep

If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.

Mean, Son, Life And Death, Life, Rests

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.

Bible, Christian, Education, Public, Remove, Wasting

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic social and political happiness.

Education, Country, America, Promote, Particles, Knowledge

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.

Affection, Justice, Patriotism, Support, Virtue

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

Democrat, Aristocrat, Christocrat, Alternately

I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.

Believe, Divine, Inspiration, Miracles, Patriotic, Recorded

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

Bible, Effective, Reading, Salvation, School, Schools

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

Against, Gates, Going To Church, Hell, Knowing Jesus, Orthodox Church

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.

Happiness, Life, Necessary, Our Lives, Scripture, Study

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

Anticipate, Command, Freedom, Regions, Respect, Say

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

Frozen, Hot, Low, Water

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.

Art, Class, Make, Religious, Time

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

4Th Of July, Blessing, Liberty, Virtue

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

Book, Men, Necessary, Patriotic, State, World

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