Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush (1745 – April 19, 1813) 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.

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

"Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us." Benjamin Rush

"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error." Benjamin Rush

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

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others. The Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." Benjamin Rush

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