Citater af Benjamin Rush

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

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

Let there be free schools established in every township or in districts consisting of 100 families. In these schools, let children be taught to read and write the English and German languages and the use of figures.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. Nothing but the first act of the drama is closed.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship.