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This is a page for collecting quotes which have been widely attributed but which should not be considered authentic until verified. Making up quotes and attributing them revered historical figures is unfortunately a common practice in some political circles.

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Benjamin Rush
Cited here, here, here, and in an offline newsletter: Unless we put medical freedom in the constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship…The constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom. –Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, physician