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…

- Benjamin Rush

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 medic…

- Benjamin Rush

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…

- Benjamin Rush

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

- Benjamin Rush

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

- Benjamin Rush

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

- Benjamin Rush

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 m…

- Benjamin Rush

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 se…

- Benjamin Rush

'Tis done. We have become a nation.

- Benjamin Rush