Daniel D. Palmer Quotes

There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.

Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.

Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident.

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton.

Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.

I feel it my bounden duty to not only replace displaced bones, but also teach others, so that the physical and spiritual may enjoy health, happiness and the full fruition of our earthly lives.

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Chiropractic is founded upon different principles than those of medicine.

Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything.

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.

Chiropractic is a science just so far as it is specific.

Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.

I laid the foundation and built thereon, the science of CHIROPRACTIC.

Study first, play afterwards.

The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.