Benjamin Rush Men Quotations

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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