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quotes[0]="In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. ";
quotes[1]="I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.";
quotes[2]="They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.";
quotes[3]="Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action";
quotes[4]="A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.";
quotes[5]="Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?";
quotes[6]="A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.";
quotes[7]="You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.";
quotes[8]="There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.  They are right.  It is the American dream.";
quotes[9]="We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.";
quotes[10]="In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.";
quotes[11]="The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.";
quotes[12]="I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.";
quotes[13]="Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.";
quotes[14]="The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.";
quotes[15]="I'm at the foot of the ladder...I'm going to step off...now. That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.";
quotes[16]="A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.";
quotes[17]="Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.";
quotes[18]="Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.";
quotes[19]="It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an  irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.";
quotes[20]="The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.";
quotes[21]="The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.";
quotes[22]="A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.";
quotes[23]="Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.";
quotes[24]="I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal'";
quotes[25]="Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the  people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!";
quotes[26]="The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.";
quotes[27]="My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!";
quotes[28]="Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.";
quotes[29]="When once a  republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by  removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles;  every other correction is either useless or a new evil.";
quotes[30]="The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.";
quotes[31]="We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.";
quotes[32]="The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.";
quotes[33]="The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.";
quotes[34]="I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.";
quotes[35]="When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.";
quotes[36]="I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.";
quotes[37]="What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?";
quotes[38]="The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.";
quotes[39]="The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.";
quotes[40]="When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.";
quotes[41]="The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.";
quotes[42]="I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.";
quotes[43]="To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.";
quotes[44]="The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.";
quotes[45]="Most bad government has grown out of too much government.";
quotes[46]="Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. ";
quotes[47]="The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the it will not become the legalized version of the first.";
quotes[48]="An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.";
quotes[49]="History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.";
quotes[50]="If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.";
quotes[51]="I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.";
quotes[52]="Lead, follow, or get out of the way.";
quotes[53]="But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.";

credits[0]="Thomas Jefferson"; 
credits[1]="Thomas Jefferson, 1791";
credits[2]="Benjamin Franklin";
credits[3]="George Washington";
credits[4]="U.S. Constitution, 2nd Amendment";
credits[5]="Patrick Henry";
credits[6]="Theodore Roosevelt";
credits[7]="Sir Winston Churchill";
credits[8]="Archibald MacLeish";
credits[9]="John F. Kennedy";
credits[10]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[11]="George Washington";
credits[12]="Patrick Henry, 1775";
credits[13]="Theordore Roosevelt";
credits[14]="Woodrow Wilson";
credits[15]="Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969";
credits[16]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[17]="Patrick Henry, 1788";
credits[18]="Thomas Paine";
credits[19]="Samuel Adams";
credits[20]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[21]="Patrick Henry";
credits[22]="Edward Abbey";
credits[23]="John Gunther";
credits[24]="Martin Luther King, Jr.";
credits[25]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[26]="Patrick Henry";
credits[27]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[28]="Thomas Tusser";
credits[29]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[30]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[31]="Patrick Henry";
credits[32]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[33]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[34]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[35]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[36]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[37]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[38]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[39]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[40]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[41]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[42]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[43]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[44]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[45]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[46]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[47]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[48]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[49]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[50]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[51]="Thomas Jefferson";
credits[52]="Thomas Paine";
credits[53]="Declaration of Independence";

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