Top 30 B. J. Palmer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.”

— B. J. Palmer

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2. “The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.”

— B. J. Palmer

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3. “While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment.”

— B. J. Palmer

4. “We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.”

— B. J. Palmer

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5. “There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects.”

— B. J. Palmer

6. “Healing is an inside job.”

— B. J. Palmer

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7. “Nature needs no help, just no interference.”

— B. J. Palmer

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8. “Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?”

— B. J. Palmer

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9. “Chiropractic is health insurance. Premiums small. Dividends large!”

— B. J. Palmer

10. “All the drugs in the world cannot adjust a subluxated vertebra.”

— B. J. Palmer

11. “It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.”

— B. J. Palmer

12. “Get the big idea and all else follows.”

— B. J. Palmer

13. “Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat.”

— B. J. Palmer

14. “It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?”

— B. J. Palmer

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15. “How do you make a dimmed light bright again? Remove the interference. How do you increase health in a dis-eased person? The same way!”

— B. J. Palmer

16. “We get sick because of something inside going wrong! We get well because of something inside going right!”

— B. J. Palmer

17. “Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.”

— B. J. Palmer

18. “If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.”

— B. J. Palmer

19. “The power that made the body heals the body.”

— B. J. Palmer

20. “To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.”

— B. J. Palmer

21. “For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.”

— B. J. Palmer

22. “Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.”

— B. J. Palmer

23. “I will sell Chiropractic, serve Chiropractic, and save Chiropractic if it will take me twenty lifetimes to do it. I will promote it within the law, without the law, in keeping with the law or against the law in order to get sick people well and keep the well from getting sick.”

— B. J. Palmer

24. “The love you give away is the love you keep.”

— B. J. Palmer

25. “In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.”

— B. J. Palmer

26. “Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.”

— B. J. Palmer

27. “Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.”

— B. J. Palmer

28. “Smile and smile often. Smile regularly. Smile when you don’t feel like it and you will feel like it when you smile.”

— B. J. Palmer

29. “When man violates man’s laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature’s laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.”

— B. J. Palmer

30. “Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.”

— B. J. Palmer

31. “The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.”

— B. J. Palmer