"A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”
-- Hippocrates

"If all the materia medica (medicine) were tossed into the sea, it would be all the worse for the fishes, and far better for mankind.”
-- Oliver W. Holmes

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature truly cures the disease.”
-- Voltaire

"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
-- Socrates

" …do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body.'
-- 1 Corinthians 6:19

"The thing that bugs me most is that the people think the FDA is protecting them - it is not. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day”.
-- Dr. Herbert Ley, Former FDA Commissioner

"The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day”.
-- Michael Miller, MD, F.A.C.C., Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center

"God and nature heals, the doctor takes the fee”.
-- Benjamin Franklin

"And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases."
-- Plato

"Natural healing is not about avoiding doctors. It is about not needing to go to doctors.”
-- Dr. Andrew Saul

"It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within." (Oh my, if Dr Schweitzer knew that the Hippacratic Oath has been turned into the Hippacritic Oath, I wonder what he'd say)
-- Albert Schweitzer, M.D.

"One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive."
(found in an ancient Egyptian tomb)

“Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
-- Voltaire

"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still get your money.”
-- Moliere

"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill. Never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which man should resist on principle at the onset. If you accept everything that you are told, you have fallen.”
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls who live under tyranny."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship ... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the bastille of medicle science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic ... The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.”
-- Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence