"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.……" — Benjamin Franklin

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• I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will… — Thomas Jefferson
• Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws… — Horace Mann
• He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. — Samuel Johnson
• One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had… — Corita Kent
• The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position... — Nathaniel Chapman
• Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man... — Alfred de Musset
• ...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter.… — Thomas Jefferson
• The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion… — Thomas Jefferson
• The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man… — Francois Fenelon
• Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and… — Samuel Johnson
• Corruption spreads faster than cancer among the people in power and position; it strengthens itself by emergence of unholy alliances… — T Joseph Benziger

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