+1There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
- Joseph Addison
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- Knowledge is indeed that which next to virtue truly and essentially raises one man above another. - Joseph Addison
- If there’s a power above us, and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works he must delight in virtue. - Joseph Addison
- What’s bad for the country is always good for the nation. - Victor Navasky
- To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. - Claude
- Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. - Martin Farquhar Tupper
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