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quoteArray[1]="\"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Jeffery Borenstein"
quoteArray[2]="\"It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Mark Twain"
quoteArray[3]="\"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.\"- Albert Einstein, \"My First Impression of the U.S.A.\", 1921"
quoteArray[4]="\"Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty--to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.\"<p align=\"right\"> --de Gourmont" 
quoteArray[5]="\"People only see what they are prepared to see.\"<p align=\"right\"> -Ralph Waldo Emerson"
quoteArray[6]="\"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.\"<p align=\"right\">  -George Bernard Shaw"
quoteArray[7]="\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Edmund Burke"
quoteArray[8]="\"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.\"<p align=\"right\"> --Benjamin Franklin"
quoteArray[9]="\"If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should all want for bread.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Thomas Jefferson"
quoteArray[10]="\"Without a struggle, there can be no progress.\"<p align=\"right\"> -Frederick Douglass"
quoteArray[11]="\"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\"<p align=\"right\">  -George Santayana"
quoteArray[12]="\"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Thomas Jefferson"
quoteArray[13]="\" The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.\"<p align=\"right\"> - CORNELIUS TACITUS (55-117 A.D.)"
quoteArray[14]="\"The important thing is not to stop questioning.\"<p align=\"right\"> -Albert Einstein"
quoteArray[15]="\"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Voltaire"
quoteArray[16]="\"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Leo Rosten"
quoteArray[17]="\"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.\"<p align=\"right\">  -William Pitt"
quoteArray[18]="\"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve"
quoteArray[19]="\"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Voltaire"
quoteArray[20]="\"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Abigail Van Buren"
quoteArray[21]="\"Knowledge is power.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Francis Bacon"
quoteArray[22]="\"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.\"<p align=\"right\">  -John Locke"
quoteArray[23]="\"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.\"<p align=\"right\"> - GEORGE WASHINGTON, Treaty of Tripoli 1796"
quoteArray[24]="\"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Justice William O. Douglas"
quoteArray[25]="\"You can choose not to decide, but you still have made a choice.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Neil Peart"
quoteArray[26]="\"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Lord Acton"
quoteArray[27]="\"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Tacitus, A.D. 55-130"
quoteArray[28]="\"The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.\"<p align=\"right\">  -John Ciardi"
quoteArray[29]="\"I don't owe you anything.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Dave Grohl" 
quoteArray[30]="\"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Alexander Hamilton"
quoteArray[31]="\"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Jeseph Joubert"
quoteArray[32]="\"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.\"<p align=\"right\">  -E. M. Forster"
quoteArray[33]="\"That government is best which governs least.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Thomas Jefferson"
quoteArray[34]="\"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Thomas Jefferson"
quoteArray[35]="\"I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Thomas Jefferson"
quoteArray[36]="\"I hope, therefore, a bill of rights will be formed to guard the people against the federal government as they are already guarded against their State governments, in most instances.\"<p align=\"right\"> -Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788"
quoteArray[37]="\"I disapproved from the first moment... the lack of a bill of rights [in the new Constitution] to guard liberty against the legislative as well as the executive branches of the government.\"<p align=\"right\"> -Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789"
quoteArray[38]="\"The declaration of rights is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.\"<p align=\"right\">-Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789"
quoteArray[39]="\"The United States is a nation of laws: Badly written and randomly enforced.\"<p align=\"right\"> -Frank Zappa"
quoteArray[40]="\"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Thomas Paine"
quoteArray[41]="\"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Eugene McCarthy"
quoteArray[42]="\"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Alexis de Tocqueville" 
quoteArray[43]="\"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Ayn Rand" 
quoteArray[44]="\"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.\"<p align=\"right\">  -George Orwell"
quoteArray[45]="\"Political systems must love poverty--they produce so much of it.\"<p align=\"right\">  -P.J. O'Rourke"
quoteArray[46]="\"Saying that economic problems are the result of the free market's failure is like gaining twenty pounds and calling the bathroom scale a bum.\"<p align=\"right\">  -P.J. O'Rourke"
quoteArray[47]="\"The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.\"<p align=\"right\">  -P.J. O'Rourke"
quoteArray[48]="\"People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.\"<p align=\"right\">  -P.J. O'Rourke"
quoteArray[49]="\"People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.\"<p align=\"right\">  -P.J. O'Rourke"
quoteArray[50]="\"I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.\"<p align=\"right\">  -P.J. O'Roruke"
quoteArray[51]="\"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.\"<p align=\"right\">  -P.J. O'Rourke"
quoteArray[52]="\"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[53]="\"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[54]="\"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[55]="\"Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[56]="\"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[57]="\"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[58]="\"The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[59]="\"All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[60]="\"The ideal government of reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[61]="\"Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[62]="\"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease.\"<p align=\"right\">  -H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[63]="\"I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down--up to a man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order--or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Ronald Reagan"
quoteArray[64]="\"A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Ronald Reagan"
quoteArray[65]="\"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Ronald Reagan"
quoteArray[66]="\"What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?\"<p align=\"right\">  -Ronald Reagan"
quoteArray[67]="\"Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Ronald Reagan"
quoteArray[68]="\"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.\"<p align=\"right\">  -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787."
quoteArray[69]="\"Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money?\"<p align=\"right\"> - MATTHEW 20:15"
quoteArray[70]="\"State prison construction budgets are up 73% since fiscal year 1987. 44 states are building new prisons or expanding existing ones.\" - CORRECTIONS COMPENDIUM 1992"
quoteArray[71]="\"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.\"<p align=\"right\">  -Benjamin Franklin"
quoteArray[72]="\"Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare of all. But if it gets out of place, if it gets too big and out of control, it destroys the happiness and even the lives of the people.\"<p align =\"right\"> -HAROLD E. STASSEN"
quoteArray[73]="\"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.\"<p align -\"right\">- Jefferson's \"Commonplace Book,\" 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764"
quoteArray[74]="\"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements).\"<p align -\"right\">- Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776. Papers 1:353"
quoteArray[75]="\"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...\"<p align -\"right\">- Richard Henry Lee, 1787"
quoteArray[76]="\"[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.\"<p align -\"right\">- James Madison, Federalist, No. 46."
quoteArray[77]="\"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ... If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?\"<p align -\"right\">- Patrick Henry"
quoteArray[78]="\"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.\" ...  \"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.\"<p align -\"right\">- George Mason"
quoteArray[79]="\"No slave shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another. Arms in possession of a slave contrary to this prohibition shall be forfeited to him who will seize them.\"<p align -\"right\">- A Bill Concerning Slaves, Virginia Assembly, 1779"
quoteArray[80]="\"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.\"<p align -\"right\">- James Earl Jones, Actor"
quoteArray[81]="\"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. ... and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.\"<p align -\"right\">- St. George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court 1803"
quoteArray[82]="\"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States\"<p align -\"right\">- Noah Webster, 1888"
quoteArray[83]="\"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.\"<p align -\"right\">- Mahatma Ghandi, \"Gandhi, An Autobiography\", page 446"
quoteArray[84]="\"In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.\"<p align -\"right\">- Aristotle"
quoteArray[85]="\"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.\"<p align -\"right\">- Heinrich Himmler"
quoteArray[86]="\"We cannot be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.\"<p align -\"right\">- B.J.Clinton, USA Today, 3/11/93"
quoteArray[87]="\"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police.\"<p align -\"right\">- Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938"
quoteArray[88]="\"We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.\"<p align -\"right\">- Abraham Lincoln"
quoteArray[89]="\"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ...... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.\"<p align -\"right\">- Bill Clinton, 3-22-94"
quoteArray[90]="\"They, the makers of the Constitution: conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. ... Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding\"<p align -\"right\">- Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928"
quoteArray[91]="\"...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.\"<p align -\"right\">- Alexander Hamilton"
quoteArray[92]="\"A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.\"<p align -\"right\">- James Madison, The Federalist Papers (No. 46)"
quoteArray[93]="\"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.\"<p align -\"right\">- Justice Robert H. Jackson"
quoteArray[94]="\"The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man.\"<p align -\"right\">- attributed to Horatio Bunce in Sockdolager"
quoteArray[95]="\"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.\"<p align -\"right\">- Charles A. Beard"
quoteArray[96]="\"Four out of five politicians surveyed prefer unarmed, ignorant peasants.\"<p align -\"right\">- Unknown" 

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