I anticipate nothing but suffering to the human race while the present systems of paganism, deism, and atheism prevail in the world. New England may escape the storm which impends our globe, but, if she does, it will only be by adhering to the religious principles and moral habits of the first settlers of that country.
 
~ Benjamin Rush ~
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Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), the “Father of American Medicine,” was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. The only physician among that courageous group, he was appointed surgeon-general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He authored seven books, supported numerous humanitarian causes and was a staunch Christian, a proponent of Bible-based education and an ardent abolitionist.

I have been alternately called an aristocrat and a democrat. I am now neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe all power… will always fail of producing order and happiness in the hands of man. He alone who created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him.

 
Like so many of our founders, Dr. Rush was also a visionary. Flash forward to 2012 and Obama-tyranny…
Fearing that, in time, medicine would organize into an “undercover ditactorship” that would suppress both competition and medical advances, Rush attempted in vain to have “medical freedom” enshrined in the Constitution.
 
Not that that would have stopped a man for whom the oath of office was a joke.