Benjamin Rush

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

— Benjamin Rush

The Fourth of July has been celebrated in Philadelphia in the manner I expected. The military men, and particularly one of them, ran away with all the glory of the day. Scarcely a word was said of the solicitude and labors and fears and sorrows and sleepless nights of the men who projected, proposed, defended and subscribed the Declaration of Independence.

— Benjamin Rush