Benjamin Rush
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"Benjamin Rush" was a Founding Fathers of the United States/Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, educator and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Rush signed the United States Declaration of Independence/Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress. He served as Surgeon General in the Continental army. Rush became a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

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

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects...It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty.

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

The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.

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