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• To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• We should realize that a city is better off with bad law
  o long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule, states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals....
• To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths of which atheism would deny.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) "The Spectator, 239" (8 March 1711)...
• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. -- Joseph Addiso
• Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
• What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous.
  We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity -- not simply for ourselves but for others -- the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be....