List of Benjamin Rush Quotes

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Benjamin Rush
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Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
House Bipolar Extravagance
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
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property ... he must be taught to amass wealth, but it must be only to increase his power of contributing to the wants and demands of the state... [education] can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the legislature.
Doe Done Demand
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . he must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of pennsylvania and of the united states.
Education Wise Teaching
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.
Education Religious Growing Up
A christian cannot fail of being a republican.
Christian Republican Failing
The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Knowing Jesus Going To Church Truth Will Prevail
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?
Kings Father Men
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal Dies
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Water Hot Frozen
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Dream Sleep Ideas
'tis done. we have become a nation.
Done Constitutional Convention Nations
  • Born: December 24, 1745
  • Died: April 19, 1813
  • Occupation: In 1797, By Appointment Of President Adams, Rush Was Made Treasurer Of The U.S. Mint, A Post He Held
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