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quote[0]="<b>The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.</b>";
quote[1]="<b>In married life two is company and three none.</b>";
quote[2]="<b>Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.</b>";
quote[3]="<b>All men think all men mortal, but themselves.</b>";
quote[4]="<b>Arguments are to be avoided.&nbsp; They are always vulgar and often convincing.</b>";
quote[5]="<b>Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.</b>";
quote[6]="<b>The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.</b>";
quote[7]="<b>Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.</b>";
quote[8]="<b>A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.</b>";
quote[9]="<b>If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.</b>";
quote[10]="<b>Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.</b>";
quote[11]="<b>Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.</b>";
quote[12]="<b>Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.</b>";
quote[13]="<b>The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.</b>";
quote[14]="<b>Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.</b>";
quote[15]="<b>Anyone capable of becoming President should on no account be allowed the job.</b>";
quote[16]="<b>Older men declare war.&nbsp; But it's the youth who must fight and die.</b>";
quote[17]="<b>Politicians are the same all over.&nbsp; They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.</b>";
quote[18]="<b>We must be the change we wish to see in the world.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/gandhi.htm\">Mahatma Gandhi</a> (b.1869-d.1948)</b>";
quote[19]="<b>\"The great masses of the people..will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.\"<br> -- Adolf Hitler</b>";
quote[20]="<b>What luck for rulers that men do not think.\"<br> -- Adolf Hitler</b>";
quote[21]="<b>\"If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.\"<br> -- (William Penn).</b>";
quote[22]="<b>\"It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading people.<br>The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.\"<br> -- Horace Greeley</b>";
quote[23]="<b>\"The cure for crime is not in the electric chair but the high chair.\"<br> -- J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director</b>";
quote[24]="<b>...Human reason left to itself can neither preserve morals nor give duration to a free government.<br> -- (Noah Webster)</b>";
quote[25]="<b>\"The meaning of America is not to be found in a life without toil.<br>Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.\"<br> -- (Calvin Coolidge)</b>";
quote[26]="<b>\"Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a> </b>";
quote[27]="<B>\"If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.\"<br> --  (Calvin Coolidge)</b>";
quote[28]="<b>\"It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.\"<br> -- (Calvin Coolidge)</b>";
quote[29]="<b>\"The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is <EM>good</EM>, and the best corrector of all that is evil, in human society; the <EM>best</EM>&nbsp; Book for regulating temporal concerns of men, and the <EM>only Book</EM> that can serve as an infallible guide to future felicity.\"<br> -- (Noah Webster)</b>";
quote[30]="<b>\"There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency.&nbsp;  That is by providing each child in America with competent parents.\"<br> -- (J. Edgar Hoover)</b>";
quote[31]="<b>It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible.&nbsp; No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.<br> -- (Theodore Roosevelt)</b>";
quote[32]="<b>The Bible fits man for life and prepares him for death.<br> -- (Daniel Webster)</b>";
quote[33]="<b>The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible],  and the more closely we observe its divine precepts,  the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.<br> -- (William McKinley)</b>";
quote[34]="<b>\"The Bible is a book in comparison with which all others are of minor importance,<br>and which in all my perplexities and distresses has never failed to give me light and strength.\"<br> -- General Robert E. Lee</b><br>Allegiance<b>:</b> United States of America &amp; Confederate States of America<br>Years of service 1829–61 (USA) &amp; 1861–65 (CSA), Rank<b>:</b> Colonel (USA) &amp; General (CSA)<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee";
quote[35]="<b>Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties.&nbsp; Write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.&nbsp; To the influence of this book are we indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future.&nbsp; Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a 2 reproach to any people\"<br> -- Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States";
quote[36]="<b>I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day.<br>I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.<br> -- (Woodrow Wilson)</b>";
quote[37]="<b>Government should uphold<br>--and not undermine--<br>those institutions which are custodians <br>of the very values upon which civilization is founded:  <br>religion, education and, above all, family.<br> -- (Ronald Reagan)</b>";
quote[38]="<b>To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.<br> -- (Theodore Roosevelt)</b>";
quote[39]="<b>There is no dignity so impressive, and no dependence quite so important as living within your means.<br> -- (Calvin Coolidge)</b>";
quote[40]="<b>\"If men are so wicked WITH religion, what would they be WITHOUT it?\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a> </b>";
quote[41]="<b>Criminals are home-grown.<br> -- (J. Edgar Hoover)</b>";
quote[42]="<b>I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.<br> -- (Helen Keller)</b>";
quote[43]="<b>The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[44]="<b>\"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.\"<br> -- Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862, letter to newspaper editor Horace Greeley</b>";
quote[45]="<b>Posterity--you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom.&nbsp;  I hope you will make good use of it.<br> -- (<a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jqa6/index.htm\">John Quincy Adams</a> (b.1767-d.1848), 6th President of the United States: 1825-1829)</b>";
quote[46]="<b>\"Liberty has never come from the government; it has always come from the subjects of it.&nbsp; The history of liberty is a history of limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.\"<br> -- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th US President, Speech, 1912</b>";
quote[47]="<Strong>\"My country owes me nothing.</Strong>  <b>It gave me, as it gives to every boy and girl, a chance.&nbsp;  It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.&nbsp;  In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.\"<br> -- (Herbert Hoover)</b>";
quote[48]="<b><BIG>It is the duty of all nations<br> to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God  and to obey His will.</BIG></FONT> <br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";
quote[49]="<b>The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.<br>  (E. M. Bounds)</b>";
quote[50]="<b>This constitution is truly republican, and forms a splendid era in the history of man.<br> -- (Noah Webster)</b>";
quote[51]="<b>The future of our country depends upon the Christian training of our youth.<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797)</b>";
quote[52]="<b>\"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances.\"<br> -- Martha Washington</b>";
quote[53]="<b>I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.&nbsp; My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.<br> -- Abraham Lincoln</b>";
quote[54]="<b>A banker:  the person who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it rains.<br> -- Mark Twain</b>";
quote[55]="<b>Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.<br> -- Calvin Coolidge</b>";
quote[56]="<b>The early morning has gold in its mouth.<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a> </b>";
quote[57]="<b>The chief of a great and powerful nation should never indulge in party feelings.<br> -- Andrew Jackson</b>";
quote[58]="<b>If the power of the Gospel is not felt through the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.<br> -- Daniel Webster</b>";
quote[59]="<b>Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.<br> -- Abraham Lincoln</b>";
quote[60]="<b>No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.<br> -- Eleanor Roosevelt</b>";
quote[61]="<b>Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.<br> -- Calvin Coolidge</b>";
quote[62]="<b>Dost thou love life?&nbsp;  Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a> </b>";
quote[63]="<b>The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt</b>";
quote[64]="<b>Failure + Failure + Failure = SUCCESS</B><br>  <br> -- Jack Hyles</b>";
quote[65]="<b>So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens to their country and respectable members of society.<br> -- (<a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jqa6/index.htm\">John Quincy Adams</a> (b.1767-d.1848), 6th President of the United States: 1825-1829)</b>";
quote[66]="<b>The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.&nbsp;  All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.<br> -- (Noah Webster)</b>";
quote[67]="<b>... May freedom be seen<br> not as the right to do as we please<br> but as the opportunity to please to do what is right.<br>  May it ever be understood that our liberty is under God<br> and can be found nowhere else...<br>To the extent that America honors Thee, wilt Thou bless America...<br>  (Peter Marshall)</b>";
quote[68]="<b>&nbsp;God set up the home for the Daddy to be in charge.<BR>-Pastor Jim Vineyard</b>";
quote[69]="<b>It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.<BR>-Henry Wadsorth Longfellow</b>";
quote[70]="<b>There needs to be a revival of the sewing machine in the home.<br>-Pastor Terry Anglea, Youth Conference 2001</b>";
quote[71]="<b>Did it ever occur to you that nothing ever occurs to God?<br>Nunca se le ha occurido que a Dios nada le ocurre?</b>";
quote[72]="<b>\"Learn to say no, it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.\"<BR> C. H. Spurgeon</b>";
quote[73]="<b>\"Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward\;<br>ours is the gospel of hope and triumphant endeavor.\"<BR> -- Theodore Roosevelt: Forum, April, 1894</b>";
quote[74]="<b><font COLOR=BLUE>Is anything too hard for the Lord?</font> -The Holy Bible, Genesis 18:14</b>";
quote[75]="<b><font COLOR=#C71585>Affliction is a better friend of character than affluence.</font></b>";
quote[76]="<b><font COLOR=#FF1493>HASTE MAKES WASTE!</font> -the ever-wise Ben Franklin<br>(<a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a>)</b>";
quote[77]="<b><Font COLOR=black><Strong>Brother, keep looking up, and remain Cross-eyed.</Strong></font><BR>-Richard Helterbran, Billings, Montana</b>";
quote[78]="<b><FONT COLOR=GREEN>Ladies dressed <EM>modestly</EM> do more to preserve our nation than the U.S. Marines, Army, Navy, and Air Force combined.</FONT><br>-Dr. Ron Gearis,<BR>ROA Prison <BR>Ministry</b>";
quote[79]="<b><font size=+1 COLOR=Black>I treat every man as a gentleman, not because he is, but <br>because I am.</font> - <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a></b>";
quote[80]="<b>Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.&nbsp; In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness-these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.&nbsp; The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.</b>";     
quote[81]="<b>The First Amendment does not include the phrase 'separation of church and state.'<br> It reads: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, <br>or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; <br>or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; <br>or the right of the people peaceably to assemble <br>and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.  <br>Nowhere does the First Amendment suggest that Christianity cannot be heard in the public square.</b>";
quote[82]="<b>The first public school law was passed in 1642.&nbsp; For the past 350 plus years a Biblical world view was taught in the public schools.&nbsp; Science, Law, History, Theology all conformed to Gods standard.&nbsp; In 1963 the beginning of the end for a moral America came, God was officially removed from the public schools.&nbsp; Would the founding fathers of America agree with this?</b>";
quote[83]="<b>First lets hear what the Bible says about governments and rulers. <p><b>Isaiah, Prophet of God.</b> 700 B.C.&nbsp; ' For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee (God) shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.'&nbsp; Isaiah 60:12 <p> <b>Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ.</b> A.D. 57&nbsp; 'Let every soul be subject unto the higher power.&nbsp; For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.'&nbsp; The epistle of Paul to the Romans.<p>&nbsp;<b>David, King of Israel.</b> 980 B.C.&nbsp; 'The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.'&nbsp; 2 Samuel 23:3</b>";
quote[84]="<b>The Mayflower Compact</b> <FONT face=\"Old English Text MT\">In ye name of God, Amen.&nbsp; We whose names are underwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord King James by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, &amp; Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &amp;c. Haveing undertaken,<b> for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith,</b> and honour of our king &amp; countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly &amp; mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant &amp; combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick; for our better ordering &amp; preservation &amp; furtherance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof, to enacte, constitute, and frame shuch just &amp; equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, &amp; offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete &amp; convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.&nbsp; In witnes wherof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd ye .11. of November, in ye year of the raigne of our soveraigne lord King James of England, France, &amp; Ireland ye eighteenth, and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth.&nbsp; Ano: Dom .1620.</font> <p>http://livingsounds.org/americanhistory/compact.html, see photocopy <p><i>The above is an exact transcription of the Mayflower Compact from a photo-scan of the original page of William Bradford's History Of Plymouth Plantation in his own handwriting.</i></b>";
quote[85]="<b>&nbsp;<b>Christopher Columbus 1492</b> The name says it all, 'Christ bearer.' 'Blessed be the light of day, and the holy cross we say; And the Lord of verity, and the Holy Trinity.' <p>&nbsp;Think about the places he named; San Salvador means 'Holy Savior' Vera Cruz means 'True Cross.' La Navidad means 'Nativity' or 'Christmas.' Then he named Trinidad, which means 'The Trinity.' <p>&nbsp;Today you can read his log.&nbsp; A quote from it, 'It was the Lord who put it into my mind to sail to the Indies.&nbsp; The fact that the Gospel must be preached in so many lands -- that is what convinced me.&nbsp; Charting the seas is but a necessary requsite for the fulfillment of the great commission of our Lord and Savior.'</b>";
quote[86]="<b>William Bradford</b> 1590-1657 Mayflower passenger Sept. 1620.&nbsp; A Governor of the Plymouth colony. <p>&nbsp;'They (the Pilgrims) had a great hope and inward zeal of laying some good foundation or at least to make some way there unto for the propagating and advancing of the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world, yea though they should be but even a stepping stone unto others for the performing of so great a work.' In his later years he wrote with 'grief and sorrow' of the growing secularism and the loss of 'constant faithfulness'.<br><br>Source: America's Founding Fathers<br><a href=\"http://livingsounds.org/americanhistory/fathers.html\">http://livingsounds.org/americanhistory/fathers.html</a></b>";
quote[87]="&nbsp;<b>The Pilgrims -- First called separatists or wanderers.&nbsp;  Around 1600 this group was called puritans.&nbsp; They started in England in the counties of Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, to purify the church and break away from the Church of England.&nbsp; In 1608 the group went to Holland and for twelve years John Robinson developed these people into what would be the founding fathers of America.&nbsp; The minority of the people sailed on the Mayflower and landed at Cape Cod after many delays and 63 days.&nbsp; The first year half of the pilgrims died but the rest survived and were joined by the others the next year.</b>";
quote[88]="&nbsp;<b>Fisher Aimes, author of the first amendment, wrote an article called 'School books' in the Pladium magazine in January 1801, 'We have trouble in the classrooms, we are putting in new text books.&nbsp; Nothing wrong with new books but we are spending more time on them than the Bible; it is drifting to the back of the classroom.&nbsp; We cannot tolerate this in American education.&nbsp; The Bible's morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble.'</b>";
quote[89]="<b>'The Bible...is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men.&nbsp; It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.&nbsp; America was born a Christian nation.' <p>&nbsp;'Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.' 'It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.'<br><br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797, <b>..</b>from Farewell Address 17 September 1796</b>";
quote[90]="&nbsp;<b>Benjamin Rush  -- A signer of the Declaration of independence and founder of five Universities, three of which are still in use today, 1st Professor of chemistry in the U.S.&nbsp; In 1791 He wrote a paper 'The defence of the use of the Bible as a school book' He wrote 12 reasons not to take the Bible out of school but at the end of the paper he wrote 'If we were to remove the Bible from pulic schools we would be waisting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.'</b>";
quote[91]="<b>'The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.'<br> -- Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States</b>";
quote[92]="<b>'The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount.<BR>The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.<BR>I don't think we emphasize that enough these days.&nbsp; If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally wind up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody but the state.'<br> -- Calvin Coolidge or Harry Truman, President of the United States</b>";
quote[93]="<b>'Progress has brought us both unbounded oppourtunities and unbridled difficulties.&nbsp; I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.&nbsp; The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming.&nbsp; The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining.&nbsp; The choice between the two is upon us.' <p>&nbsp;'There is only one morality.&nbsp; All else is immorality.&nbsp; There is only true Christian ethics over against which stands the whole of paganism.&nbsp;  If we are to fulfill our great destiny as a people, then we must return to the old morality, the sole morality.'<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States";
quote[94]="<b>'The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the mount.&nbsp; The fundamental basis of our bill of rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.&nbsp; I don't think we emphasize that enough these days..'<br> -- Harry S Truman, President of the United States</b>";
quote[95]="&nbsp;<b>John Adams  -- 'In 1798 he made proclamation that the 9th day of May that year would be a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer that the people of the US would offer their devout addresses to the Father of Mercies.' Just let the President TRY to do that today!!</b>";
quote[96]="<b>'I believe that no one can read the history of our country  without realizing that the good book and the spirit of the savior, have from the beginning have been our guiding geniuses.\"<br> -- Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1954</b>";
quote[97]="<b>\"The American's Creed I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation and many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.&nbsp;   I therefore believe it is my <FONT  COLOR=#008080></u>duty</U></FONT> to my country <FONT  COLOR=#008080>to love it,</FONT> to support its Constitution, <FONT  COLOR=#008080>to obey its laws,</font> to respect its flag,<font color=#008080> and to defend it against all enemies.</font>\" <br> -- William Tyler Page, The American's Creed</B></FONT></b>";
quote[98]="<b>\"Courage is being scared to death -- and saddling up anyway.\"<br> ~~ <strong>John Wayne</strong></b>"; 
quote[99]="<b>\"I wont be wronged,<br>I wont be insulted,<br>I wont be laid a hand on,<br>I don't do these things to other people,<br>and I require the same from them.\"<br>  ~ John Wayne as 'John Bernard Books' in the \"The Shootist\"  <br> -- (src: <a href=\"http://www.geocities.com/dukejohnwayne/JohnWayneAudio.htm\">John Wayne Audio</a>), <a href=\"./sounds/Iwont.wav\">Listen</a> (112KB, .wav)</b>";  
quote[100]="<b>If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.<br> -- (various)</b>";
quote[101]="<b>\"The most distinguished persons, become more revolutionary as they get older.\"<br>- (George Bernard Shaw)</b>";
quote[102]="<b>\"I am overwhelmed by the devastation and destruction.&nbsp; Our country cannot be cowed by terrorists, by people who don't share our values.\"<br>- (President George Bush)</b>";
quote[103]="<b>\"We are here in the middle hour of our grief.<br>So many have suffered so great a loss,<br>and today we express our nation's sorrow.<br>We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, <br>and for those who love them.\"<br>- (President George Bush)</b>";
quote[104]="<b>\"Just three days removed from these events,<br>Americans do not yet have the distance of history.<br>But our responsibility to history is already clear:<br>to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.\"<br>- (President George Bush)</b>";
quote[105]="<b>\"War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder.&nbsp; This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.&nbsp; This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others.&nbsp; It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.\"<br>- (President George Bush)</b>";
quote[106]="<b>\"Our unity is a kinship of grief, <br>and a steadfast resolve to prevail against our enemies.<br>And this unity against terror <br>is now extending across the world.\"<br>- (President George Bush)</b>";
quote[107]="<b>\"Ours is a nation full of good fortune,<br>with so much to be grateful for.<br>But we are not spared from suffering.<br>In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom.<br>They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender.<br>And the commitment of our fathers <br>is now the calling of our time.\"<br>- (President George Bush)</b>";
quote[108]="<b>\"As we have been assured, neither death nor life, <br>nor angels nor principalities nor powers, <br>nor things present nor things to come, <br>nor height nor depth, can separate us from God's love.<br>May He bless the souls of the departed.<br>May He comfort our own.<br>And may He always guide our country.\"<br>- (President George Bush)</b>";
quote[109]="<b>\"Britain must, and I am sure will,  stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States of America  and peaceful nations across the world in deploying  every possible resource to bring to justice the people responsible,  and make sure terrorism never prevails.\"<br>- (Prime Minister, Tony Blair)</b>";
quote[110]="<b>\"I say to our enemies, we are coming.<br>God may show you mercy.<br>We will not.\"<br>- (Sen. John McCain, R-AZ)</b>";
quote[111]="<b>\"We have to protect ourselves and I'm sure we will.<br>It cannot be dealt with by one retaliatory blow, <br>it requires a systematic attack against terrorism.\"<br>- (Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger)</b>";
quote[112]="<b>\September 15, 2001 - President Bush<br>\"Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.\"<br>\"I will not settle for a token act.<br>Our response must be sweeping, sustained and effective.<br>We have much to do and much to ask of the American people.<br>You will be asked for your patience, for the conflict will not be short.<br>You will be asked for resolve, for the conflict will not be easy.<br>You will be asked for your strength <br>because the course to victory may be long.\"</b>";  
quote[113]="<b>\"I can you hear you! <br>The rest of the world hears you! <br>And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[114]="<b>\"These terrorists...we have seen their kind before.&nbsp; They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century.&nbsp; By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism.&nbsp; And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[115]="<b>\"We will direct every resource at our command <br>-- every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, <br>every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, <br>and every necessary weapon of war <br>-- to the destruction and to the defeat <br>of the global terror network.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[116]="<b>\"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.<br><br>From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[117]="<b>\"I know there are struggles ahead and dangers to face.&nbsp; But this country will define our times, not be defined by them.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[118]="<b>\"Our nation, this generation, will lift the dark threat of violence from our people and our future.&nbsp; We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage.&nbsp; We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[119]="<b>\"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain.<br>Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, <br>and we know that God is not neutral between them.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[120]="<b>\"Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue.&nbsp; Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.&nbsp; And I will carry this.&nbsp; It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others.&nbsp; It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son.&nbsp; It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[121]="<b>\"War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder.&nbsp; This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.&nbsp; This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others.&nbsp; It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[122]="<b>\"I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it.<br>I will not yield, I will not rest, <br>I will not relent in waging this struggle <br>for freedom and security for the American people.\"<br> -- (President George W. Bush)</b>"; 
quote[123]="<b>\"It'll always be Operation Infinite Justice to us.\"<br> -- Anonymous</b>";
quote[124]="<b>\"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.\"<br> -- Sir Winston S. Churchill</b>";
quote[125]="<b>\"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.&nbsp; In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797<br> <b>..</b>in his Farewell Address delivered this day, September 19, 1796</b>";
quote[126]="<b>\"Thomas Paine said during the American Revolution, <br>'America shall make a stand not for itself alone, but for the world.\' And from that day to this, the voices of other patriots in other times have rung out in support of human freedom.<br><br>President Ronald Reagan telling Mr. Gorbachev to 'tear down that wall.'<br><br>President Bush atop the rubble at the World Trade Center telling the terrorists that they would 'hear from all of us soon.'<br><br>They did hear from us, and the fight for freedom continues, because we know that if we do not fight the terrorists over there in Iraq, in Afghanistan and across the world, then we will have to face them here,  and many more innocent men, women and children, as well as the patriots defending them, will perish.&nbsp; That's why we will prevail.\" <br> -- Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld at Arlington National Cemetery, Sept. 11</b>";
quote[127]="<b>\"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.<br>Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.<br>The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce.<br>...The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, <br>and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.\" <br> -- James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 45 <br>(See Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, and its Bill of Rights, <br>particularly the Tenth Amendment.)</b>";
quote[128]="<b>\"Let this day always be a reminder to our nation, to the world, why we fight in freedom's cause and why we must fight and win this global war on terror.\" <br> -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld</b>";
quote[129]="<b>\"<B>The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, its declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray.\" <br> -- Ronald Reagan</b>";
quote[130]="<b>\"It is the soldier, not the reporter,<br>Who has given us freedom of the press.\"</b>excerpt from <b>IT IS THE SOLDIER</b><br>by Charles Michael Province &copy 1970,2009";
quote[131]="<b>\"It is the soldier, not the poet,<br>Who has given us freedom of speech.\"</b>excerpt from <b>IT IS THE SOLDIER</b><br>by Charles Michael Province &copy 1970,2009";
quote[132]="<b>\"It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,<br>Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.\"</b>excerpt from <b>IT IS THE SOLDIER</b><br>by Charles Michael Province &copy 1970,2009";
quote[133]="<b>\"It is the soldier, who salutes the flag,<br>Who serves beneath the flag,<br>And whose coffin is draped by the flag,<br>Who allows the protester to burn the flag.\"<br> -- Charles Michael	 Province</b>";
quote[134]="<b>\"You seem to consider the judges as the final arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one that would put us under the despotism of an oligarchy.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson wrote this to William Jarvis<br><br>Jefferson also said, \"If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[135]="<b>\"I do not charge the judges with willful and ill-intentioned error; but honest error must be arrested where its toleration leads to public ruin.&nbsp; As for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam*; so judges should be withdrawn from their bench whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution.&nbsp; It may, indeed, injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.\" <br> -- Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.&nbsp; ME 1:122<br> * According to Webster's 1828 Dictionary 'Bedlam' was \"a religious house in London, afterward converted into a hospital for lunatics.\"<br> --<a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[136]="<CENTER><FONT SIZE=\"+3\">TEN COMMANDMENTS</FONT><table><tr><td><FONT SIZE=\"+1\">I. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.<BR><P>II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.<BR><P>III. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.<BR><P>IV. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.<BR><P>V. Honour thy father and thy mother.<BR></FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE=\"+1\">VI. Thou shalt not kill.<BR><P>VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.<BR><P>VIII. Thou shalt not steal.<BR><P>IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.<BR><P>X. Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbor's.</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER></b>";
quote[137]="<b>\"Democrats have spilled more oratory and convinced less voters than any party I know of, outside the Socialists.\" --Will Rogers</b>";
quote[138]="<b><a href=\"http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"red\">U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK</font></a><br>\"The national budget must be balanced.&nbsp;  The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.&nbsp; Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt.&nbsp;  People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.\"<br> -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 B.C.</b>";
quote[139]="<b>\"What word does Pearl Harbor bring to mind, Dad?\"<br>...Arizona.<br>\"What do you think of when you hear the word 'infamy?'\"<br>...of how a Nation, under God,<br>can fight to the death to defend its Freedom<br>...then pass it on to the vanquished<br>...with Love.\"<br> --B.C. cartoon by Johnny Hart,<br>Dec. 7, 2003<br><br><small>(<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hart\">b. February 18, 1931 - d. April 7, 2007) was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id</a>.)</small></b>";
quote[140]="<b>\"Little in Hollywood these days provokes any thought.<br>The utter lack of morals and standards of many of the people in Hollywood is directly reflected in their work.<br>Life also imitates art as players in Hollywood are frequently violent, addicted, or adulterous<br>and never once held to the same standards as the rest of society.<br>And to some, the opportunity to use film making<br>as a political propaganda tool is too much to resist.\"<br> -- Sterling Rome</b>";
quote[141]="<b>\"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";
quote[142]="<b>\"America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier,<br>exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.\"<br> -- James Madison</b>";
quote[143]="<b>\"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.\"<br> -- Winston Churchill, 1945</b>";
quote[144]="<b>\"The world has no room for cowards.<br>We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.<br>And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields,<br>and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat.\"<br> -- Robert Lewis Stevenson</b>";
quote[145]="<b>\"It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state...<br>And absolute security is absolute slavery.\"<br> -- Taylor Caldwell</b>";
quote[146]="<b>\"Government is not the solution to our problem.&nbsp; Government is the problem.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[147]="<b>\"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[148]="<b>\"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[149]="<b>\"Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[150]="<b>\"The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[151]="<b>\"The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as you're driving away from it.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>"; 
quote[152]="<b>\"We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was that the government didn't come around telling you were poor.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>"; 
quote[153]="<b>\"To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions every day, I say:<br>The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values\;<br>it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>"; 
quote[154]="<b>\"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[155]="<b>\"Politics is not a bad profession.<br>If you succeed there are many rewards,<br>if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[156]="<b>\"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[157]="<b>\"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.\"<br> --  Ronald Wilson Reagan<br>President of the United States</b>";
quote[158]="<b>\"To expect bad people not to do wrong is madness,<br>for he who expects this desires an impossibility.<br>But to allow people to behave so to others,<br>and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational and tyrannical.\"<br> -- Marcus Aurelius</b>";
quote[159]="<b>\"Better faithful than famous.&nbsp;  Honor before prominence.\"<br> --Teddy Roosevelt</b>";
quote[160]="<b>\"Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger,<br>but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.\"<br> --Sir Walter Scott</b>";
quote[161]="<b>\"Do your duty in all things.&nbsp;  You cannot do more.<br>You should never wish to do less.\"<br> -- General Robert E. Lee</b><br>Allegiance<b>:</b> United States of America &amp; Confederate States of America<br>Years of service 1829–61 (USA) &amp; 1861–65 (CSA), Rank<b>:</b> Colonel (USA) &amp; General (CSA)<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee";
quote[162]="<b>\"Moral relativism is the end of morality, period.\"<br> --Michael Novak</b>";
quote[163]="<b>\"What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.\"<br> -- Benjamin F. Fairless</b>";
quote[164]="<b>\"As a member of this court I am not justified<br>in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution,<br>no matter how deeply I may cherish them<br>or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.\"<br> -- Felix Frankfurter</b>";
quote[165]="<b>\"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no recognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.\"<br> -- Byron R. White</b>";
quote[166]="<b>\"Respect for the original intent of the Constitution is low in Washington.<br>It's so low, it's virtually non-existent.\"<br> -- Rep. Ron Paul</b>";
quote[167]="<b>\"Mankind censures injustice, fearing that they may be victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.\"<br> -- Plato</b>";
quote[168]="<b>\"National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.\"<br> -- William E. Gladstone</b>";
quote[169]="<b>\"If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers' ...if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.\"<br> -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Democrat lawmakers</b>";
quote[170]="<b>\"Islamic Law, Shariah, will be applied to all those who deviated from the right path and committed crimes in the name of religion to spread corruption on earth....\"<br>King Fahd, Saudi Arabia, 23Jun04</b>";
quote[171]="<b>\"The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man,<br>will endeavor so to live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier<br>defending the dearest Rights and Liberties of his country.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797<br> <b>..</b>to his troops</b>";
quote[172]="<b>\"I have examined all religions , as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, my busy life, would allow\; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world.&nbsp; It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.\"<br> -- John Adams in a letter to <br><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[173]="<b>\"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.\"<br> -- Sigmund Freud</b>";
quote[174]="<b>\"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.\"<br> -- William S. Burroughs, Grand Street, no. 37 (1992).&nbsp; The War Universe</b><br><br>http://wordsofthesentient.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/disarm-the-innocent-william-burroughs/";
quote[175]="<b>\"Gun control has not worked in D.C.&nbsp;  The only people who have guns are criminals.\"<br>&nbsp; We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates.&nbsp; It's quicker to pull your Smith and Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed.\"<br> -- Lieutenant Lowell Duckett (Pres., Black Police Caucus, Special Assistant to Washington, D.C. Police Chief) The Washington Post</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[176]="<b>\"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> [Federalist Papers at 184-188] (b.1755-d.1804)</b>";
quote[177]="<b>\"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams</b>";
quote[178]="<b>\"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns.<br>Only the police, the secret police, the military,<br>the hired servants of our rulers.&nbsp; Only the government - and a few outlaws.<br>I intend to be among the outlaws.\"<br> -- Edward Abbey</b>";
quote[179]="<b>\"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.\"<br> -- Marion Barry (former mayor), Washington, D.C.</b>";
quote[180]="<b>\"The way to be safe is never to be secure.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a></b>";
quote[181]="<b>\"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and ask \"What should be the rewards of such sacrifices?\"<br> -- Samuel Adams, Philadelphia,1 August 1776</b>";
quote[182]="<b>\"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution,<br>are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.<br>We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors\:<br>they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood,<br>and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.<br>It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle,<br>or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams</b>";
quote[183]="<b>\"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.\"<br> -- Thomas Paine</b>";
quote[184]="<b>\"Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity, or ideology.&nbsp; They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces.&nbsp; They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes, and helicopter gunships.\"<br> -- Ronald Reagan</b>";
quote[185]="<b>\"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.<br>Rather we should thank God that such men lived.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton\">General George S. Patton, Jr</a>.</b>";
quote[186]="<b>\"<b>Distinguishing between Patriots and cowards,</b> Samuel Adams, said:<br>\"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say,<br>'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?'<br>... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom<br>...crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you.<br>May your chains sit lightly upon you,<br>and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!<br>Philadelphia, 1 August 1776</b>";
quote[187]="<b>\"Bid us and our posterity bow the knee,<br>supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap,<br>to glut the avarice of the men<br>who have let loose on us the dogs of war<br>to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?\"<br> -- Samuel Adams, Philadelphia, 1 August 1772</b>";
quote[188]="<b>\"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.&nbsp; The credit belongs to the man who is actually <b>in the arena</b>; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.\"<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt, Sarbonne, Paris, 23 April 1910</b>";
quote[189]="<b>\"In October of 2002, after hearing all the nay-sayers whining about going to war to fight against terrorism,<br>(and to protect our interests and defend our allies) I wondered;<br>how exactly do we defend and maintain our freedom then?<br>If not by the violent destruction of those who would threaten us, then by what means?<br>There comes a time when even peace loving people have to fight.\"<br> -- Jim Byers, <a href=\"http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm\">Remember the Blood of Heroes</a>...</b>"; 
quote[190]="<b>\"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future.\"<br> -- General George S. Patton, Jr.<br><small>(quote source: http://www.military-quotes.com/Patton.htm by Lars Eirik)</small></b>";
quote[191]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....\"<br> -- General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, died 1864.<br>Killed in battle during US Civil War<br><small>(src: <a href=\"http://www.sauruspress.com/lookback/worldwars/quotes.htm\">http://www.sauruspress.com/lookback/worldwars/quotes.htm</a>)</small></b>";
quote[192]="<b>\"Duty, honor, country.\"<br>General Douglas MacArthur, Thayer Award Speech to cadets of the U.S. Military Academy on May 12, 1962.<br><small>(src: <a href=\"http://www.sauruspress.com/lookback/worldwars/quotes.htm\">http://www.sauruspress.com/lookback/worldwars/quotes.htm</a>)</small></b>";
quote[193]="<b>\"Once is happenstance.&nbsp; Twice is coincidence.&nbsp; Three times is enemy action.\"<br>Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming</b>";
quote[194]="<b>\"The term, \"crusade,\" has since carried a connotation in the west of being a 'righteous campaign,' usually to \"root out evil,\" or to fight for a just cause.&nbsp; In the Arab world, the equivalent term is jihad, while \"crusade\" is term which connotes a hostile and foreign invasion by \"infidels,\" those disrespectful or defiling of the Muslim culture.\"<br><small>( source: WordIQ at <a href=\"http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Crusades\" target=\"_new\">http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Crusades</a> )</small></b>";
quote[195]="<b>\"Children today are tyrants.&nbsp; They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://www.2020site.org/socrates/\" target=\"_new\">Socrates</a> (<a href=\"http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm\" target=\"_new\">469-399</a> BCE).</b>";
quote[196]="<b>\"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.\"<br> -- George Santayana</b>";
quote[197]="<b>\"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.\"<br> -- Edmund Burke</b>";
quote[198]="<b>\"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.\"<br> -- John G. Diefenbaker</b>";
quote[199]="<b>\"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.\"<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt</b>";
quote[200]="<b>\"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.\"<br> ~ Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[201]="<b>\"Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.\"<br> -- Winston Churchill</b>";
quote[202]="<b>\"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.\"<br> -- Groucho Marx</b>";
quote[203]="<b>\"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.\"<br> -- Second Amendment<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;U.S. Constitution  <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[204]="<b>\"Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense...\"<br> -- John Adams<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\"<i> ..serving as defense counsel for a British soldier, a Boston Massacre participant</i>\" <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[205]="<b>\"...A well-regulated Militia, composed of the Gentlemen, Free-holders, and other Freemen was necessary to protect our ancient laws and liberty from the standing army...\"<br> -- George Mason, Fairfax County Militia Plan<br>and subsequent co-author of the Second Amendment  <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[206]="<b>\"To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them.\"<br> -- George Mason, Fairfax County Militia Plan<br>and subsequent co-author of the Second Amendment <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[207]="<b>\"...It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people<br>to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control...<br>The Militia is composed of free Citizens.<br>There is therefore no Danger of their making use of their power<br>to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[208]="<b>\"They tell us ... that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.<br>But when shall we be stronger?&nbsp; ... Will it be when we are totally disarmed, [?].. \"<br> -- Patrick Henry <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[209]="<b>\"... No free man shall be debarred the use of arms within his own land.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809<br>Virginia Constitution of 1776<br>Lexington, Virginia <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[210]="<b>\"... The balance of power is the scale of peace.<br>The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms,<br>for all would be alike\;<br>but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside...<br>Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them<br> ... the weak will become a prey to the strong.\"<br> -- Thomas Paine, author of the treatise: <i>Common Sense</i><b>.</b><br>from his <i>Thoughts on Defensive War</i> <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[211]="<b>\"Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.\"<br> -- James Madison, ..father of the Second Amendment [Federalist Papers] <sup><b>*</b></sup></b>";
quote[214]="<b>A Framer  --  \"Under every government the [last] resort of the people, is an appeal to the sword; whether to defend themselves against the open attacks of a foreign enemy, or to check the insidious encroachments of domestic foes.&nbsp;  Whenever a people ... entrust the defence of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction of the most wealthy citizens.\"</b>";
quote[215]="<b>Samuel Adams  --  \"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.\"</b>";  
quote[216]="<b>Samuel Adams -- \"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.&nbsp; We ask not your counsels or your arms.&nbsp; Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.&nbsp; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.\"</b>";   
quote[217]="<b>Samuel Adams -- \"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press,  or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.\"</b>";
quote[218]="<b>Cesare Beccaria -- \"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.&nbsp; The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature.&nbsp; They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.&nbsp; Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty... and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer?&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; They ought to be designated as laws not preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree.\"</b>";
quote[219]="<b>David Boaz -- \"Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.\"</b>";
quote[220]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>James Bovard -- \"As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.\"</b>";
quote[221]="<b>Sarah Brady (False) -- \"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.\"</b>";
quote[222]="<b>William S. Burroughs -- \"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.&nbsp; I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.\"<br> -- William S. Burroughs, Grand Street, no. 37 (1992).&nbsp; The War Universe</b><br><br>http://wordsofthesentient.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/disarm-the-innocent-william-burroughs/";
quote[223]="<b>Al Capone -- \"You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.\"</b>";
quote[224]="<b>\"No gun ban has ever kept guns out of the hands of criminals--only prisons do.\"<br> -- Wayne R. LaPierre<br><i>Guns, Crime, and Freedom</i>, 1994.</b>"; 
quote[225]="<b>\"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.\"</b>";
quote[226]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Bill Clinton -- \"The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.\"</b>";
quote[227]="<b>Bill Clinton -- \"The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.\"</b>";
quote[228]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Bill Clinton -- \"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.&nbsp; When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.&nbsp; 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.\"</b>";
quote[229]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Bill Clinton -- \"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...\"</b>";
quote[230]="<b>Cockrum v. State -- \"The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute.&nbsp; He does not derive it from the State government.&nbsp; It is one of the high powers delegated directly to the citizen, and is excepted out of the general powers of government.&nbsp; 'A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.'\"</b>";
quote[231]="<b>\"While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny.\"<br> -- Reverend Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[232]="<b>Tench Coxe -- \"The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible.&nbsp; Who are the militia?&nbsp; Are they not ourselves?&nbsp; Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom.&nbsp; Congress have no power to disarm the militia.&nbsp; Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.\"</b>";
quote[233]="<b>Tench Coxe -- \"Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.\"</b><br> -- (friend of Madison, member of Continental Congress) (introduction to his discussion, and support, of the 2nd Amend)<br>\"Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution\",  Philadelphia Federal Gazette, 18 June 1789, pg.2<br><br>src: WRH";
quote[234]="<b>Clint Eastwood -- \"At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time?&nbsp; Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?&nbsp; At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain.&nbsp; Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms?&nbsp; What kind of mentality does that?\"</b>";   
quote[235]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Joycelyn Elders -- \"It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.\"</b>";
quote[236]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Dianne Feinstein -- \"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.\"<br><small>(related: <a href=\"http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59\">http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59</a>)</small></b>";
quote[237]="<b>R. Buckminster Fuller -- \"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.\"</b>";
quote[238]="<b>Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi -- \"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.\"<br><a href=\"http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/gandhi.htm\">Mahatma Gandhi (b.1869-d.1948)</a>  [Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446]</b>";
quote[239]="<b>Jean Genet -- \"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.\"</b>";
quote[240]="<b>Rep. Elbridge Gerry -- \"What, Sir, is the use of a militia?&nbsp; It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.&nbsp; ...Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.\"</b>";
quote[241]="<b>Hermann Goering -- \"Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.\"</b>";
quote[242]="<b>Kenneth Goff -- \"During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics.&nbsp; This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.\"</b>";
quote[243]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804) -- \"But if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights.\"</b>";  
quote[244]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804) -- \"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.\"</b>";
quote[245]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804) -- \"To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace; and, that to model our political systems upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.\"</b>";
quote[246]="<b>Paul Harvey -- \"They have gun control in Cuba.&nbsp; They have universal health care in Cuba.&nbsp; So why do they want to come here?\"</b>";   
quote[247]="<b>Patrick Henry -- \"The great object is that every man be armed.&nbsp; Everyone who is able may have a gun.\"</b>";
quote[248]="<b>\"Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?&nbsp; Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possesion and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?&nbsp; 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?\"<br> -- Patrick Henry</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[249]="<b>Charlton Heston -- \"As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue.&nbsp; No, it's much, much bigger than that.&nbsp; I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.\"</b>";
quote[250]="<b>Adolf Hitler (False) -- \"This year will go down in history.&nbsp; For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration!&nbsp; Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!\"</b>";   
quote[251]="<b>Hubert H. Humphrey -- \"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible.\"</b>";
quote[252]="<b>William Ralph Inge -- \"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.\"</b>";
quote[253]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809<br>(False) -- \"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms.&nbsp; The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.\"</b>";
quote[254]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809<br> -- \"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.&nbsp; The people cannot be all, and always, well informed.&nbsp; The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.&nbsp; If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.&nbsp; ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?&nbsp; Let them take arms.&nbsp; The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.&nbsp; What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?&nbsp; The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.&nbsp; It is its natural manure.\"</b>";
quote[255]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809<br> -- \"A strong body makes the mind strong.&nbsp; As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun.&nbsp; While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind.&nbsp; Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.&nbsp; Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walk.\"</b>";
quote[256]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809<br> -- \"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.\"</b>";
quote[257]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809<br> -- \"What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?&nbsp; And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?&nbsp; Let them take arms.&nbsp; The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.&nbsp; What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?&nbsp; The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.&nbsp; It is its natural manure.\"</b>";
quote[258]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809<br> -- \"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?&nbsp; Let them take arms.\"</b>";
quote[259]="<b>Zachariah Johnson -- \"The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.&nbsp; They are left in full possession of them.\"</b>";
quote[260]="<b>Richard Henry Lee -- \"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.\"</b>";
quote[261]="<b>\"With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.&nbsp; I have therefore resigned my commission in the Army, and save in defense of my native State, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword...\"<br> -- General Robert E. Lee</b><br>Allegiance<b>:</b> United States of America &amp; Confederate States of America<br>Years of service 1829–61 (USA) &amp; 1861–65 (CSA), Rank<b>:</b> Colonel (USA) &amp; General (CSA)<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee";
quote[262]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- \"One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers (Communist) and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class).\"</b>";
quote[263]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- \"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.\"</b>";
quote[264]="<b>Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- \"Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.\"</b>";
quote[265]="<b>Abraham Lincoln -- \"Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be no successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections.\"</b>";
quote[266]="<b>General Douglas MacArthur -- \"Wars are caused by undefended wealth.\"</b>";
quote[267]="<b>Niccolo Machiavelli -- \"Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised....\"</b>";
quote[268]="<b>James Madison -- \"An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.\"</b>";
quote[269]="<b>James Madison -- \"The highest number to which a standing army can be carried in any country does not exceed one hundredth part of the souls, or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms.&nbsp; This portion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men.&nbsp; To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence.&nbsp; It may well be doubted whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops.&nbsp; Besides the advantage of being armed, it forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.&nbsp; The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms.&nbsp; If they did, the people would surely shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.&nbsp; Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors.\"</b>";
quote[270]="<b>James Madison -- \"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.\"</b>";
quote[271]="<b>George Mason -- \"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.\"</b>";
quote[272]="<b>George Mason -- \"Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...?&nbsp; I ask, who are the militia?&nbsp; They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers.\"</b>";
quote[273]="<b>George Mason -- \"That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free State...\"</b>";
quote[274]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Howard Metzanbaum -- \"What good does it do to ban some guns.&nbsp; All guns should be banned.\"</b>";
quote[275]="<b>James Monroe -- \"Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.\"</b>";
quote[276]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Professor Dean Morris, Director of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) -- <br>\"I am one who believes that as a first step the U.S. should move expeditiously to disarm the civilian population, other than police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols and revolvers ...no one should have a right to anonymous ownership or use of a gun.\"</b>"; 
quote[277]="<b>P. J. O'Rourke -- \"When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.\"</b>";
quote[278]="<b>Thomas Paine -- \"From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.\"</b>";
quote[279]="<b>Theophilus Parsons -- \"But, sir, the people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal of arms.&nbsp; An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law; and any man may be justified in his resistance.&nbsp; Let him be considered as a criminal by the general government, yet only his fellow-citizens can convict him; they are his jury, and if they pronounce him innocent, not all the powers of Congress can hurt him; and innocent they certainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law he resisted was an act of usurpation.\"</b>";
quote[280]="<b>\"The loyalists in the beginning of the late war objected to associating, arming and fighting, in defense of our liberties, because these measures were not constitutional.&nbsp; A free people should always be left... with every possible power to promote their own happiness.\"<br> -- Pennsylvania Gazette, April 23, 1788</b>";
quote[281]="<b>George L. Roman -- \"I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control.\"</b>";
quote[282]="<b>Ronald Reagan -- \"The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago.&nbsp; And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms.&nbsp;The Constitution says 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'\"</b>";   
quote[283]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Janet Reno -- \"Waiting periods are only a step.&nbsp; Registration is only a step.&nbsp; The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.\"<br><small>(related: <a href=\"http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59\">http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59</a>)</small></b>";
quote[284]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Janet Reno -- \"Gun registration is not enough.\"<br><small>(related: <a href=\"http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59\">http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59</a>)</small></b>";
quote[285]="<b>L. Neil Smith -- \"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.'&nbsp; Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.\"</b>";
quote[286]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>Josef Stalin -- \"If the opposition (citizen) disarms, well and good.&nbsp; If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.\"</b>";
quote[287]="<b>Desmond Tutu -- \"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.\"</b>";
quote[288]="<b>State Gazette (Charleston) -- \"No free government was ever founded or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state.... Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.\"</b>";
quote[289]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>United Nations' World Constitution -- \"The age of nations must end... The governments of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties into one government to which they surrender their arms.\"</b>";
quote[290]="<b>U.S. Constitution, Second Amendment -- \"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.\"</b>";
quote[291]="<b>\"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them.&nbsp; The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army.&nbsp; Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission.&nbsp; We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";
quote[292]="<b><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797<br> (False) -- \"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.&nbsp; They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence.&nbsp; The church, the plow, the prairie wagon, and citizen's firearms are indelibly related.&nbsp; From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable.&nbsp; Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99 99/100 percent of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands.&nbsp; The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place with all that's good.&nbsp; When firearms go, all goes; we need them every hour.\"</b>";
quote[293]="<b>\"Another source of power in government is a military force.&nbsp; But this, to be efficient, must be superior to any force that exists among the people, or which they can command; for otherwise this force would be annihilated, on the first exercise of acts of oppression.&nbsp; Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.&nbsp; 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 band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.&nbsp; A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.\"<br> -- Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, Philadelphia, 1787</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[294]="<b>Walter Williams -- \"The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.\"</b>";
quote[295]="<b>God made men.&nbsp;  Samuel Colt made them equal.</b>";
quote[296]="<b>\"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[297]="<b>That which seems to be the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.\"<br> -- John Stuart Mill</b>"; 
quote[298]="<b>\"One thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee...was a nation governed by professional politicians who had a vested interest in getting reelected.&nbsp; They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then looking...forward to getting back to the farm.\"<br> -- President Ronald Reagan</b>"; 
quote[299]="<b>\"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.\"<br> -- Justice Joseph Story</b>";
quote[300]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them,\"<br> -- warned George Mason.</b>";
quote[301]="<b>\"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.&nbsp; Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.&nbsp; Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force.&nbsp; Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined....&nbsp; O'sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people!\"<br> -- Patrick Henry, imploring future generations.</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[302]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States<br>for an outright ban [on \"assault weapons\"],<br>picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn them all in,<br>I would have done it.\"<br> -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), CBS 60 Minutes, Feb. 5, 1995<br><small>(related: <a href=\"http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59\">http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59</a>)</small></b>";
quote[303]="<b>\"No bastard ever won a war dying for his country.&nbsp; You win a war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.\"<br> -- General George Patton<br><small>(src: <a href=\"http://www.sauruspress.com/lookback/worldwars/quotes.htm\">http://www.sauruspress.com/lookback/worldwars/quotes.htm</a>)</small></b>";
quote[304]="<b>\"No one can read our Constitution without concluding<br>that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited;<br>the words 'no' and 'not' employed in restraint of government power occur<br>24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution<br>and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.\"<br> -- Edmund A. Opitz, Citizen</b>";
quote[305]="<b>\"What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?\"<br> -- Grover Cleveland, President of the United States</b>";
quote[306]="<b>\"The chief cause of problems is solutions.\"<br> -- Eric Sevareid, News Commentator</b>";
quote[307]="<b>\"To insist on strength...is not war-mongering.&nbsp;  It is peace-mongering.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater, (U.S. Senator (R-Az), Presidential Candidate</b>";
quote[308]="<b>\"Wisdom in government is not a one-way street that always runs downhill.<br>More often, the higher up the ladder of government you go,<br>the less common sense you find.\"<br> -- Ronald Reagan, President of the United States</b>";
quote[309]="<b>\"The Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than golf has.\"<br> -- Will Rogers, Humorist &amp; Actor</b>";
quote[310]="<b>\"The left takes its vision seriously -- more seriously than it takes the rights of other people.<br>They want to be our shepherds.<br>But that requires us to be sheep.\"<br> -- Thomas Sowell, Citizen</b>";
quote[311]="<b>\"[E]ven if Kerry's Vietnam record is every bit as heroic as he presents it,<br>the notion that this makes him fit to be president is ludicrous.<br>The man spent four months in combat as a junior officer;<br>he's not exactly Eisenhower.\"<br> -- James Taranto, Citizen</b>";
quote[312]="<b>\"I'm proud to be running with Dick Cheney.<br>Now, listen, I admit to you he isn't the prettiest one in the race...<br>I didn't pick him for his looks.\"<br> -- President George Walker Bush</b>";
quote[313]="<b>\"For liberals, it's ever and always our fault.<br>According to this worldview, if we didn't support Israel,<br>if we weren't involved in the Middle East,<br>if we'd hadn't toppled the Taliban regime and Saddam's thugocracy,<br>today, al-Qa'ida suicide bombers would be waving little American flags<br>while bin Laden sang 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'.\"<br> -- Don Feder, Citizen</b>";
quote[314]="<b>\"By the way, Thomas Jefferson...once said that the philosophy of Jesus Christ is the 'most sublime' ever offered.&nbsp; Good thing the ACLU didn't have an office in Philadelphia at the time to accuse Jefferson of being 'divisive'.\"<br> -- Paul Kengor, Citizen<br><br><a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[315]="<b>\"As the Republicans prepare to take their turn on the convention stage,<br>Democrats are already urging them not to 'politicize' the 9/11 attacks.&nbsp; It's not clear what would constitute politicization, but anything that reminds Americans that the perpetrator was Osama bin Laden and not George Bush would probably qualify.\"<br> -- Paul Beston, Citizen</b>";
quote[316]="<b>\"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force!<br>Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";
quote[317]="<b>\"The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States.&nbsp; The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator in his book \"With No Apologies\".</b>";
quote[318]="<b>\"When the accumulation of power within all three branches of government,<br>the legislative, the judicial, and the executive, are in the same hands,<br>then tyranny will follow.\"<br> -- James Madison</b>";
quote[319]="<b>\"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms.<br>The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms<br>is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[320]="<b>\"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams</b>";
quote[321]="<b>\"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.\"<br> -- James Madison</b>";
quote[322]="<b>\"One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers (communists)<br>and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (middle class).\"<br> -- Lenin</b>";
quote[323]="<b>\"Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications is simply not a possibility in the modern age.\"<br> -- George Keenan, 1964</b>";
quote[324]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"I am one who believes that as a first step<br>the U.S. should move expeditiously to disarm the civilian population,<br>other than police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols, and revolvers<br>...no one should have a right to anonymous ownership or use of a gun.\"<br> -- Professor Dean Morris, Director of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), in testimony to Congress.</b>";
quote[325]="<b>\"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,<br>the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.\"<br> -- The U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Article II.</b>";
quote[326]="<b>\"Who are the militia?&nbsp; Are they not ourselves?<br>...Congress have no power to disarm the militia.&nbsp; Their swords ... are the birth-right of an American.<br>...The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments,<br>but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.\"<br> -- Tench Coxe, prominent Pennsylvania Federalist</b>";
quote[327]="<b>\"The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee said in its report:<br>\"The 'Militia' referred to a universally armed people, not to organized units.<br>When the framers referred to the equivalent of our National Guard, they uniformly used the term 'Select Militia'<br>...and distinguished this from 'Militia'..\".</b>";
quote[328]="<b>\"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed.<br>The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword;<br>	because the whole body of the people are armed.\"<br> -- Noah Webster</b>";
quote[329]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"What Boutros-Ghali proposes is closer than anyone on the planet should ever want to get to a transnational military force that could override and eventually abolish national sovereignty all together and in the process set up the United Nations itself as the power apparatus of an unelected global elite.\"<br> -- Samuel Francis, Human Events, August 22, 1992.</b>";
quote[330]="<b>\"One has only to consider, what loans can lead to in order to realize their danger.<br>Therefore, I would never have anything to do with them and have always striven against them.\"<br>\"When a Government, is dependent for money upon bankers,<br>they and not the leaders of that Government control the situation,<br>since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.\"<br>\"Money, has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency:<br>their sole object is gain.\"<br> -- Napoleon Bonaparte</b>";
quote[331]="<b>\"..The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move towards larger, more stable, more cooperative units.\"<br> -- Zbigniew Brzezinski, speaking at the Gorbachev Conference, September, 1995.</b>";
quote[332]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years.&nbsp; These are primarily for outward consumption.&nbsp; There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes.&nbsp; Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.&nbsp; We want to accomplish three things:<br>One, we want the Americans to withdraw conventional forces from Europe.<br>Two, we want them to withdraw nuclear forces from Europe.<br>Three, we want the Americans to stop proceeding with the Strategic Defense Initiative.\"<br> -- Michail Gorbachev, November 1987 Statement to Politburo</b>";
quote[333]="<b>\"After signing into law The Federal Reserve Act he regretted what he had done<br>and made this quote after his term in office.<br>\"We are controlled by a small group of dominant men.&nbsp; The worst rule and most completely control Government in the civilized world.<br>Some of the biggest men in the United States are afraid of something\;<br>they know that there is a power so organized, so subtle, so interlocked, and so complete<br>that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.\"<br> -- Woodrow Wilson</b>";
quote[334]="<b>\"The world has a cancer, and that cancer is man.\"<br> -- Merton Lambert, former spokesman for the Rockefeller Foundation, Harpeth Journal, December 18, 1962</b>";
quote[335]="<b>\"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb.<br>This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.\"<br> -- Albert Einstein</b>";
quote[336]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Let me control a peoples currency and I care not who makes their laws.\"<br> -- Meyer Nathaniel Rothschild in a speech to a gathering of world bankers February 12, 1912</b>";
quote[337]="<b>\"In our dreams we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands.<br>The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk....<br>The task we set before ourselves is a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are.<br>So we will organize our children into a little community and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way,<br>in the home, in the shop, and on the farm....'\"<br> -- \"The Project,\" Jan-Feb 85, p. 1, quoting from Dr. Emanuel Josephson's Rockefeller Internationalist.</b>";
quote[338]="<b>\"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications<br>whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.<br>It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.<br>But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.<br>The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.\"<br> -- David Rockefeller, Bilderberg Meeting, June 1991 Baden, Germany</b>";
quote[339]="<b>\"To survive Rockefeller was forced to initiate a gigantic 'philanthropy' program to finance the Establishment's pet schemes.&nbsp; Thus, we see the Rockefeller General Education Board and countless other fronts formed and financed by Rockefeller at the behest and under the control of the Eastern Establishment and its feudal and 'Bismarxian' (later Communazi) British Oligarchical program.<br>The quotation from Rockefeller's General Education Board Occasional Paper #1 says it all:<br>\"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.\"<br> -- Adolf Hitler, \"Mein Kampf\"</b>";
quote[340]="<b>\"In 1992, George H.W. Bush told White House reporter Sarah McClendon:<br>\"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.\"</b>";
quote[341]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all land, nations, and countries<br>is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire World.\"<br> -- Ezra Taft Benson, LDS General Conference, October 1988</b>";
quote[342]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.<br>National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.\"<br> -- Strobe Talbot, President Clintons Deputy Secretary of State</b>";
quote[343]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world.&nbsp; All the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands.\"<br> -- Arnold Toynbee, \"The Trend of International Affairs Since the War\", International Affairs, November 1931</b>";
quote[344]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"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.&nbsp; And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom.&nbsp; When personal freedoms being abused, you have to move to limit it.&nbsp; That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend of the public housing projects, about how were going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.\"<br> -- President Bill Clinton, March 22, 1994 statement made on MTVs \"Enough is Enough\"</b>";
quote[345]="<font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Today American's would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful.&nbsp; This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence.&nbsp; It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil.&nbsp; The one thing every man fears is the unknown.&nbsp; When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.\"<br> -- Henry Kissinger in an address to the super secret Bilderberg Organization meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992<br>said the following as transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates<br>\"NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.\"<br> -- Henry Kissinger";
quote[346]="\"The general feeling of the money barons of Europe toward Lincoln's debt free \"greenbacks\" is expressed in an editorial in the London Times which stated:<br>\"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origins in North America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that country shall furnish its own money without cost.<br>It will print all the money necessary to carry on its commerce.<br>It will pay off its debt and be without debt.<br>It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world.<br>The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America.<br>That country must be destroyed, or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.\"<br>The Hazard Circular, another European publication specializing in financial and banking interests, claimed:  \"The great debt the capitalists will see rise from the Civil War must be used to control the value of their money.<br>To accomplish this, the government bonds must be used as a banking basis.<br>We are now waiting for the Secretary of the United States to make this recommendation.<br>It will not allow the 'Greenbacks' to circulate as money for any length of time for we cannot control that.<br>But we can control the bonds and, through them, the banking issues.\"<br> -- \"In retaliation to Lincoln's 'greenbacks,' the European interests helped push the National Banking Act of 1863 into law despite Lincoln's protests.<br>By now, the Rothschilds had financed enough election campaigns of senators and congressman to insure its passage.<br>Through the National Banking Act they succeeded in making Lincoln's 'greenbacks' worthless as payment on interest of government bonds already sold, and on import duties.\" -- \"Conspiracy Digest\", Fall, 73, p.&nbsp; 3.";
quote[347]="<b>\"You will be happy to learn that the former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union), General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security.\"<br> -- March 17, 2003</b>";
quote[348]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We are on the verge of a global transformation.<br>All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.\"<br> -- David Rockefeller</b>";
quote[349]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We cant be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.\" -- President Bill Clinton, USA Today, March 11th 1993 page 2a</b>";
quote[350]="<b>\"Its been demonstrated that well within two minutes of watching television, most people enter a hypnotic alpha state bordering on theta.&nbsp; Viewers in this state are no longer able to critically evaluate, discern, or pass judgment from their own moral database on the material being viewed.&nbsp; The information just flows, unimpeded, into their subconscious year in and year out.\"<br> -- Jeff Rense, Talk  radio host</b>";
quote[351]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it.<br>The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.\"<br> -- James Paul Warburg, son of Paul Warburg,<br>who was active in the United World Federalists for a World Government,<br>stated before the U.S. Senate, February 17, 1950.</b>";
quote[352]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Humanity needs world order.<br>The fully sovereign nation is incapable of dealing with the poisoning of the environment...<br>The management of the planet...requires a world government.\"<br> -- Norman Cousins (CRF), long-time president of the United World Federalists<br>(not the World Federalist Association), on Earth Day, April 22, 1970.</b>";
quote[353]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"By the end of this decade [by the year 2000] we will live under the first One World Government  that has ever existed in the society of nations ... a government with the absolute authority to decide the basic issues of human survival.&nbsp; One world government is inevitable.\"<br> -- Pope John Paul II as quoted by Malachi Martin, a Roman Catholic priest in his book, The Keys To This Blood.</b>";
quote[354]="<b>\"Why do the nations rage and the peoples imagine a vain thing?&nbsp; The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.\"<br> -- Psalm 2.</b>";
quote[355]="<b>\"What Boutros-Ghali proposes is closer than anyone on the planet should ever want to get to a transnational military force that could override and eventually abolish national sovereignty all together and in the process set up the United Nations itself as the power apparatus of an unelected global elite.\"<br> -- Samuel Francis, Human Events, August 22, 1992.</b>";
quote[356]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"..The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization<br>because by that we move towards larger, more stable, more cooperative units.\"<br> -- Zbigniew Brzezinski, speaking at the Gorbachev Conference, September 1995.</b>";
quote[357]="<b>\"We are not going to change Soviet power, of course,<br>or abandon its fundamental principles, but we acknowledge the need<br>for changes that will strengthen socialism.\"<br> -- Gorbachev, from his book Perestroika.</b>";
quote[358]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"On United Nations Day, October 24, 1975,<br>the World Affairs Council unveiled \"A Declaration of Interdependence,\"<br>which in part states, \"Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring forth a new world order.</b>";
quote[359]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>[False?] \"United Nations' World Constitution:<br>\"...The age of nations must end...<br>The governments of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties<br>into one government to which they surrender their arms.</b>";
quote[360]="<b>\"For when they shall say, \"peace and safety,\" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.\"<br> -- The apostle Paul, 1 Thessalonians 5:3</b>";
quote[361]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society.<br>Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.\"<br> -- Zbigniew Brezhinsky, National Security Advisor to President Carter<br>and advisor to four other presidents, and Executive Director of the Trilateral Commission.<br>Zbigniew continues: \"Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance<br>over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files<br>containing even the most personal information about the citizen.<br>These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.\"<br> -- From Brezhinsky's book, Between Two Ages.</b>";
quote[362]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We are not part of a military program to implant tags in humans.&nbsp; In fact, we are not part of any plan to implant tags in humans.<br>But a glass encapsulated animal tag only begs the question of the definition of what type of animal,<br>and if that definition is \"a mammal,\" certainly it would include man.<br>Are humans running around somewhere on the globe with tags--RFID tags--implanted in them?<br>Yes! Absolutely, conclusively so.\" Donald G. Small, Hughes Identification Devices,<br>Excerpted from the Video \"Mark of the New World Order.\"<br>\"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society.<br>Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.\"<br> -- Zbigniew Brezhinsky, National Security Advisor to President Carter and advisor to four other presidents, and Executive Director of the Trilateral Commission.<br>Zbigniew continues: \"Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance<br>over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing<br>even the most personal information about the citizen.<br>These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.\" -- From Brezhinsky's book, Between Two Ages.</b>";
quote[363]="<b>\"...he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and enslaved,<br>to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads,<br>and that no man might buy or sell, except he that had the mark, or the name of the beast,<br>or the number of his name.\"<br> -- Revelation 13:16, 17.</b>";
quote[364]="<b>\"It is evident that the New World Order as conceived in Washington is about control and surveillance,<br>not about values or a better life for the peoples of the world.\"<br> -- Richard A. Falk, World Federalist Association</b>";
quote[365]="<b>\"...because they received not the love of the truth...<br>And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie.&nbsp; That they might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.\"<br> -- 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12</b>";
quote[366]="<b>\"...he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and enslaved,<br>to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell,<br>except he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.\"<br> -- Revelation 13:16, 17.</b>";
quote[367]="<b>\"From the days of Sparticus Weishaupt, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenberg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.&nbsp; This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution.&nbsp; It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century.&nbsp; And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.\"<br> -- Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England, stated to the London press in 1922.</b>";
quote[368]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.\"<br> -- Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.</b>";
quote[369]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.\"<br> -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President, in a letter written November 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House.</b>";
quote[370]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common<br>-- they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and national independence of the United States...<br>To achieve this new [international] federalism, the United States must submerge its national sovereignty<br>to a new political order.&nbsp; In my view, [the CFR] represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control<br>and consolidate the four centers of power -- political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.\"<br> -- Admiral Chester Ward (A 16-year member of the Council of Foreign Relations).</b>";
quote[371]="<b>[<a href=\"http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/weberman/jfk.htm\">False</a> <a href=\"http://www.kamron.com/economics/kennedy.htm\">conspiracy</a> <a href=\"http://www.apfn.org/money/jfk.htm\">re the Fed</a>?]\"...The high office of the president has been used to foment a plot to destroy America's freedom and before I leave this office, I must inform the citizens of their plight.\"<br> -- John F. Kennedy, at Columbia University in 1963.&nbsp; Ten days later the president was assassinated.</b>";
quote[372]="<b>\"All the perplexities, confusion and distress arise not from the defects of the Constitution, not from want of honor and virtue so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.\"<br> -- John Adams, in a letter [1787] to <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809.</b>";
quote[373]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.<br>Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set governments at defiance.<br>The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809.</b>";
quote[374]="<b>\"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jg20/index.htm\">James Abram Garfield</a> (b.1831-d.1881)<br>20th President of the United States: 1881-1881</b>";
quote[375]="<b>\"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.\"<br> -- Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company, commenting on the privately owned \"Federal Reserve System\"</b>";
quote[376]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known.<br>I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the FED.<br>They are not government institutions.<br>They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers...\"<br> -- Lewis McFaddon, U.S. Congressman.</b>";
quote[377]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind.<br>It financed Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism and Socialism.<br>All of these are directed to making the United States a member of a World Government...\"<br> -- American Mercury Magazine, December 57, pg. 92.</b>";
quote[378]="<b>\"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits,  or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class.&nbsp; The great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages will bear its burden without complaint.\"<br> -- Rothshild Brothers of London, in a letter discussing their new banking scheme with fellow bankers, dated June 25, 1863.</b>";
quote[379]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood<br>what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington;<br>they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy<br>the economic and social independence of the United States.\"<br> -- George W. Malone, U.S. Senator, speaking before Congress in 1957.</b>";
quote[380]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"In the World Bank's 1994 Human Development Report, an essay by Nobel Prize-winning economist Jan Tinbergen, entitled \"Global Governance for the 21 Century,\" states: \"Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments.&nbsp; What is needed is a World Government.\" This government he says, should be empowered with a \"World Police\" and a program for \"the redistribution of world income.\"</b>";
quote[381]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The Bankers Manifesto\"<br>\"Capital must protect itself in every way.... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible.&nbsp; When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers.&nbsp; People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders.&nbsp; This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world.&nbsp; By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.\"<br>From the Civil Servant's Year Book, \"The Organizer\", January 1934.</b>";
quote[382]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance to our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have.&nbsp; Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.\"<br> -- Dr. Chester Pierce, Harvard University Professor, Humanist.</b>";
quote[383]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Every child who believes in God is mentally ill.\"<br> -- Dr. Paul Brandwein, leading child psychologist.</b>";
quote[384]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future<br>must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers<br>that correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith<br>which will replace the rotting corpse of Christianity.\"<br> -- Humanist John Dunphy, Humanist Magazine, 1983 Jan-Feb issues.</b>";
quote[385]="<b>\"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,<br>or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;<br>or abridging the freedom of speech,<br>or of the press;<br>or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,<br>and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\"<br>U.S. Constitution, The Bill of Rights, Article 1.<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b><br><br>As he explained the meaning of the first amendment as it applies to religion in his Inaugural Address.&nbsp; He said that the constitution places a wall of separation around the Church and religious persons to protect them from encroachments and interference by the state.";
quote[386]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Is there a number of mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society?<br>Yes, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.\"<br> -- Ralph Nader.</b>";
quote[387]="<b>\"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.&nbsp; We have staked the future...upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.\"<br> -- James Madison, founding father of U.S.</b>";
quote[388]="<b>\"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people.<br>It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.\"<br> -- John Adams, second President of U.S.</b>";
quote[389]="<b>\"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.\"<br> -- William Penn</b>";
quote[390]="<b>\"The people know it is impossible to rightly govern without God and the Bible.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";
quote[391]="<b>\"The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests.\" -- Andrew Jackson, President of U.S.</b>";
quote[392]="<b>Alexis De Togueville upon visiting America in the early 19th century, this French historian observed:<br>\"America is great because America is good.&nbsp; If American ever ceases to be good it will cease to be great.\"</b>";
quote[393]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Religions are illogical primitive ignorance.&nbsp; There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.\"<br> -- Trotsky</b>";
quote[394]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.\"<br> -- Karl Marx</b>";
quote[395]="<b>\"I see the church molding the thought of the world, as it has never done before, leading in all great movements as it should.&nbsp; I see it literally establishing the Kingdom of God on earth.\"<br> -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1917</b>";
quote[396]="<b>\"The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp.&nbsp; It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.\"<br> -- British military historian Major General J.F.C. Fuller, 1941</b>";
quote[397]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Fifty men have run America and that's a high figure.\"<br> -- Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, 1936 issue of The New York Times.</b>";
quote[398]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government<br>combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control<br>Do I mean conspiracy?&nbsp; Yes I do.&nbsp; I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope,<br>generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.\"<br> -- Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, Killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets</b>";
quote[399]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"What is important is to dwell upon the increasing evidence of the existence of a secret conspiracy, throughout the world, for the destruction of organized government and the letting loose of evil.\"<br> -- Christian Science Monitor editorial, June 19, 1920</b>";
quote[400]="<b>\"The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies (Marxism / fascism / socialism v. democracy / capitalism) to enable them (Illuminati) to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other.\"<br> -- Myron Fagan</b>";
quote[401]="<b>\"The Council on Foreign Relations is \"the establishment.\"<br>Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions<br>at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above,<br>but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below,<br>to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S.<br>from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.\"<br> -- Former Congressman John Rarick 1971</b>";
quote[402]="<b>\"The directors of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) make up a sort of Presidium for that part of the Establishment that guides our destiny as a nation.\"<br> -- The Christian Science Monitor, September 1, 1961</b>";
quote[403]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The most powerful clique in these CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) groups have one objective in common: they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S.&nbsp; They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace.&nbsp; What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people.&nbsp; The CFR was founded for: \"the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.\"<br> -- Harpers, July 1958</b>";
quote[404]="<b>\"If totalitarianism wins this conflict, the world will be ruled by tyrants, and individuals will be slaves.&nbsp; If democracy wins, the nations of the earth will be united in a commonwealth of free peoples, and individuals, wherever found, will be the sovereign units of the new world order.\"<br> -- The Declaration of the Federation of the World, produced by the Congress on World Federation,<br>adopted by the Legislatures of North Carolina (1941), New Jersey (1942), Pennsylvania (1943),<br>and possibly other states.</b>";
quote[405]="<b>\"You need only reflect that one of the best ways<br>to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days<br>is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers<br>used in the great struggle for independence.\"<br> -- Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)</b>";
quote[406]="<b>\"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money<br>for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors<br>is sinful and tyrannical.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[407]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Fundamental, Bible-believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.\"<br> -- Peter Hoagland, Nebraska State Senator and Humanist, speaking on radio in 1983 with Everett Sileven.</b>";
quote[408]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution,<br>the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship.<br>To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others<br>will constitute the bastilles of medical science.&nbsp; All such laws are Un-American and despotic.\"<br> -- Dr. Benjamin Rush, revolutionary war hero, surgeon general, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.</b>";
quote[409]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"There is no such thing in America as an independent press<br>We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes<br>Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.<br>We are intellectual prostitutes.\"<br> -- John Swinton, former New York Times Chief of Staff</b>";
quote[410]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day,\"<br> -- Dr. Jacques Cousteau.</b>";
quote[411]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany.&nbsp; Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals.. the two things seem to go together.\"<br> -- The 700 Club, 1992</b>";
quote[412]="<b>\"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists,<br>New Age, worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers,<br>revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?\"<br> -- Pat Robertson's book <u>The New World Order</u> p. 227 (1991)</b>";
quote[414]="<b>\"I am a most unhappy man.&nbsp; I have unwittingly ruined my country.<br>A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.<br>Our system of credit is concentrated.&nbsp; The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.&nbsp; We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world.&nbsp; No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.\"<br> -- Woodrow Wilson, President of the U.S.</b>";
quote[415]="<b>\"There also exists another alliance  at first glance a strange one, a surprising one  but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand.&nbsp; This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists.\"<br> -- V.I. Lenin 1917</b>";
quote[416]="<b>\"When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here.&nbsp; A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure.&nbsp; Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is the Fed has usurped the Government.&nbsp; It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations.&nbsp; It makes and breaks governments at will.\"<br> -- Louis T. McFadden Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency 1920  1931</b>";
quote[417]="<b>\"It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for us to get along in a republic of the United States.\"<br> -- President Truman June 28, 1945</b>";
quote[418]="<b>\"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.<br>But it cannot survive treason from within.<br>An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly.<br>But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely,<br>his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.<br>For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims,<br>and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness<br>that lies deep in the hearts of all men.&nbsp; He rots the soul of a nation,<br>he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city,<br>he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.<br>A murderer is less to be feared.\"<br> -- Cicero, Roman Empire, 42 B.C.</b>";
quote[419]="<b>\"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\"<br> -- Lord Acton</b>";
quote[420]="<b>\"In total, during the first eighty-eight years of this century,<br>almost 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed<br>in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed,<br>helpless citizens and by a modern Black Plague.<br>And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not of germs.\"<br> -- Dr. R.J. Rummel, Death by Government</b>";
quote[421]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism.&nbsp; But under the name of \"liberalism\" they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.\"<br> -- Norman Thomas US Socialist Presidential candidate</b>";
quote[422]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The time for absolute and exclusive sovereignty has passed;<br>its theory was never matched by reality.\"<br> -- UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace, 1992.</b>";
quote[423]="<b>\"In Germany they (the Nazis) came first for the Communists,<br>and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.<br>Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.<br>Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.<br>Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.<br>Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.\"<br> -- Pastor Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) 1946,<br>..a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor.<br>(arrested by the Gestapo in 1937)</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[424]="<b>\"In the counsels of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,<br>whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex.<br>The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.<br>We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.<br>We should take nothing for granted.&nbsp; Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel<br>the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense<br>with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.\"<br> -- President Eisenhower, Jan. 1961</b>";
quote[425]="<b>\"For when they shall say, \"peace and safety,\" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.\"<br> -- The apostle Paul, 1 Thessalonians 5:3</b>";
quote[426]="<b>\"Is it better to be unhearing and without sight to what is right in front of you or is a selfish moment in time more precious than the future?\"<br> -- Lee DAndrea, August 13, 2004</b>";
quote[427]="<b>\"...because they received not the love of the truth...<br>And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie.<br>That they might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.\"<br> -- 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12</b>";
quote[428]="<b>\"We live now in the moral realm under the tyranny of the judges on the federal bench.&nbsp; They have destroyed our Constitution.&nbsp; They have trampled our rights.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a></a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hillsdale, Michigan, February 7, 2004</b>";
quote[429]="<b>\"There is a separation [of church and state],<br>but that separation was not meant to protect the state from the religion.<br>It was meant to protect religion from the state.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a></a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hillsdale, Michigan, February 7, 2004</b>";
quote[430]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"There are signs on the horizon that<br>if folks who call themselves conservatives don't wake up and speak up and act up soon, the title 'conservative' will mean nothing in our politics.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a></a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CPAC 2004, January 24, 2004</b>";
quote[431]="<b>\"The moral basis of our society is being assaulted and destroyed, and the chief instrument of that destruction is the abusive power of the courts.&nbsp; We must break that power, or they will destroy our way of life.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a></a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CPAC 2004, January 24, 2004</b>";
quote[432]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"If we have now reached the stage where we must lock-step, knee-jerk obey the dictate of judges on the federal bench when their orders have no basis in law or the Constitution, then we have no laws and we have no Constitution!&nbsp; We have only tyranny and oppression!\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a></a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rally in Blairsville, Georgia, October 21, 2003</b>";
quote[433]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"With respect to this phony doctrine of separation, what they have done is they have turned our reverence for law into a weapon against our reverence for God.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a></a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rally in Blairsville, Georgia, October 21, 2003</b>";
quote[434]="<b>\"They have no right to tell us we cannot pray!&nbsp; They have no power to tell us we cannot put the Ten Commandments in our schools and in our public buildings!&nbsp; They have no constitutional authority to stand in the way of our reverence for God in and through our state institutions!\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a></a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rally in Blairsville, Georgia, October 21, 2003</b>";
quote[435]="<b>\"At the time the First Amendment was passed, there were a majority of states in the United States --at the time, the former colonies --where there were religious tests and oaths of office, where there were, in fact, established churches.&nbsp; How do [liberals] mean to tell us that the people who wrote the First Amendment then went back on to live in contradiction of its terms?&nbsp; This is a lie!&nbsp;  And its time we threw this lie back into their teeth!\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a></a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ten Commandments rally in Alabama, August 16, 2003.</b>";
quote[436]="<b>\"A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah, September 24, 2002.</b>";
quote[437]="<b>\"The idea of a terrorist attack that assaults innocent human beings in a building, or a mall or a restaurant is bad enough.<br>Yet the terrorist mind that looks at a passenger plane and sees the fuel and the intensity of the blast,<br>and sees the rocket engines that will carry it into the heart of destruction like a cruise missile,<br>but who does not see the humanity of one single soul on that airplane,<br>is the chilling truth of what we're up against.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Black America's Political Action Committee (BAMPAC), September 25, 2001.</b>";
quote[438]="<b>\"This nation began from an acknowledgment of God's authority.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Calvary Church in Southern California, October 28, 2000;</b>";
quote[439]="<b>\"The abuse meted out to children, just as it is meted out to now to the children in the womb, renders the heart insensible to the abuses of right and dignity meted out to those who are citizens in the world.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Alabama Republican Assemblies Luncheon, April 29, 2000.</b>";
quote[440]="<b>\"I think that we will perform the greatest blessing that we could for future generations if we find it in ourselves, soon, in this generation, to correct the error that was made at the beginning of the 20th century.&nbsp; We don't need to reform the [income] tax, we don't need to change its rates, we don't need to tinker with it, we don't need to take the code and do this or that, we don't need to simplify it, we don't need to flatten it.&nbsp; We need to abolish it, get rid of it, and return to the original Constitution!\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>;<br>Renew America rally in Alabama, April 29, 2000.</b>";
quote[441]="<b>\"If that child sleeping in the womb has no rights<br>that have to be respected until its mother decides,<br>then we have dethroned the choice of God and put in its place a merely human choice.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>;<br>Speech in Wisconsin, March 26, 2000.</b>";
quote[442]="<b>\"And therefore, when we embrace this abortion doctrine,<br>we are not only turning our back on our principle,<br>we're actually running into the arms of the principle of tyranny<br>that this nation, by God's providence, was founded to refute.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Speech in Wisconsin, March 26, 2000.</b>";
quote[443]="<b>\"We appeal to God and His authority for our rights,<br>and yet we are now going to say that in our lives, schools, and everywhere else, we cannot acknowledge the authority of God?&nbsp; Indeed, we cannot even speak the name of God?\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Speech in Wisconsin, March 26, 2000.</b>";
quote[444]="<b>\"It is wrong to take the life of an innocent stranger,<br>but it is wronger still [more wrong] to take the life that God has given you to be your own flesh and blood.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Speech in Wisconsin, March 26, 2000.</b>";
quote[445]="<b>\"We have created an educational system,<br>funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars,<br>that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000.</b>";
quote[446]="<b>\"In the name of a profound lie, we have reached across the line of justice into what ought to be the safe haven of the womb, and snuffed out the lives of tens of millions of innocent human beings!\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000.</b>";
quote[447]="<b>\"The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000.</b>";
quote[448]="<b>\"If people can't be trusted with the weapons to defend themselves, how come people drawn from the same pool of depravity and irresponsibility can be trusted in the government with the monopoly on weapons when nobody has them?\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000</b>";
quote[449]="<b>\"Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% up to 3/5ths of all the abortions.<br><br>This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to--since it means folks are being killed off now at a faster rate, that people are voluntarily reaching into the womb and cutting off the life of the future.&nbsp; To support a position which leads to that kind of mass murder is 'sensitive,' is it?&nbsp; I consider it insane.&nbsp; And I consider the people who champion it people who have declared war against the future of Black America.&nbsp; It is an ugly and insidious war, but it has the same effect as if you mowed down literally millions of people on the battlefield.&nbsp; And yet they claim that this is all in the name of some compassionate agenda.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000.</b>";
quote[450]="<b>\"We have surrendered, and we are being called upon to surrender even more, our access to the means of self-defense, to those 'terrible' weapons that do so much destruction, according to the papers.&nbsp; The way they talk about them, you would think that there are guns, rifles, and automatic weapons strolling the streets of our city, randomly killing folks.&nbsp; 'We must stop the scourge of these uncontrolled weapons!'<br><br>And, of course, it is absurd, isn't it?&nbsp; Because we know good and well that these are not demonic things, possessed of some kind of life and will.&nbsp; They are mere dead instruments, no more portentous with evil than the hearts of the people who make use of them.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Virginia high school appearance, February 28, 2000.</b>";
quote[451]="<b>\"Crosses stand row upon row in cemeteries in far-flung places around the world.&nbsp; Under them lie those who were our forebears, our spouses, our brothers, our sisters, our aunts, our uncles, our grandfathers.&nbsp; And they sacrificed their lives so that we would stand on the front line of that justice which we understood on the basis of this heritage we now reject.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\"Proudly Pro-Life Award Dinner\", January 13, 2000.</b>";
quote[452]="<b>\"The Founders ascribed that moment of our rights not to our birth, but to our creation.<br>And by doing so, they took that ascription of rights out of the hands of human beings,<br>out of the reach of human power and human choice, and put it squarely in the hands of God,<br>who is solely responsible for that creation.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\"Proudly Pro-Life Award Dinner\", January, 2000.</b>";
quote[453]="<b>\"Each and every human being stands in the sight of that Creator God Almighty equal to every other human being in their moral worth and dignity.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\"Proudly Pro-Life Award Dinner\", January, 2000.</b>";
quote[454]="<b>\"Standing equal with ourselves under the protection,<br>and as the purpose of the goal of our Constitution,<br>are those who do not yet walk our streets,<br>are those who do not yet feel the sunlight of our sun or of our liberty,<br>are those who have not yet been born and to whom we have an obligation<br>as a people to respect the needs that they will have,<br>and to act in such a way that this country's great institutions will not be destroyed for them.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Jewish Coalition, December 1, 1999.</b>";
quote[455]="<b>\"If we do not address this moral crisis [abortion] now and rightly, we will not just lose a little,<br>we will lose it all, and so will all those others who depend on our strength and confidence in this world.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Jewish Coalition, December 1, 1999.</b>";
quote[456]="<b>\"What we don't want to think about when we confront our heritage is the tough question I will put to you today.<br><br>How on earth is it compatible with the goal of securing the blessings of liberty to our posterity that we could sanction the killing of our near posterity in the womb?\"<br><br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Jewish Coalition, December 1, 1999.</b>";
quote[457]="<b>\"Our Founders didn't just tell us that we have rights.&nbsp;  They told us where those rights come from.&nbsp; And it was not from constitutions, and it was not from victories on the battlefield.&nbsp; It was not from stock markets and the strength of our economic life.&nbsp; It was not from any human power or any human judgments whatsoever.&nbsp; For in that great language, in those great words, they invite us to bow our knee before that source of our rights, which is the source of all our strength and all our dignity: the power, the will, the authority of our Creator, God.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fourth of July speech in Iowa, July 4, 1999</b>";
quote[458]="<b>\"The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Christian Coalition Dinner, February 6, 1999</b>";
quote[459]="<b>\"Either our rights come from the hand of the Creator, or they come from human hands.&nbsp; Either our right to life, and our claim to be respected at every moment of that life, is grounded in a decision, a determination by the Creator, or it is grounded in a human will, a human decision, a human choice.&nbsp; You can't have it both ways.\"<br><br>\"When they come to us and they say, 'Women have the right to choose with respect to that life in the womb,' they are dethroning the authority of the Creator.&nbsp; They are saying to us that each and every one of us--because, last time I looked, we mostly came here by way of the womb--had no rights that had to be respected until a human choice was made.&nbsp; It moves the locus of authority for the foundation of our claim to rights and human dignity from the hands of God to mere human hands.&nbsp;  Once that translation is made, it is only a matter of time before those rights are surrendered all together.\"<br> <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;William Patterson University, December 11, 1998.</b>";
quote[460]="<b>\"Once you start saying that the right to life, or any rights, come from morally significant traits, it's a very small step to noticing that some people have more traits than others.&nbsp; Well, if some people have more traits than others, then they have more rights than others.&nbsp; And we have taken this step away from the fundamental principles of liberty and representative government, back into the days of dark despotism--of rule by those who fancied, on account of their birth or other qualities, that they were born booted and spurred to ride the rest of us.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\"A Woman's Friend Banquet\", November 7, 1997.</b>";
quote[461]="<b>\"We may not be called upon to die upon this or that battlefield of war, physically to sacrifice our lives.&nbsp; We are, rather, called upon in all the little decisions of the day,  in all the intimate decisions of the heart, to decide whether we shall live according to those truths for which others have died--whether we shall lift up life for the sake of which others gave their lives.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\"A Woman's Friend\" banquet, November 7, 1997.</b>";
quote[462]="<b>\"Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Southern Methodist University, February 24, 1997.</b>";
quote[463]="<b>\"The pro-abortion logic is that we must take the Declaration principle<br>--that we are all created equal, and endowed by God with unalienable rights--and throw it away.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Missouri Right To Life, October 4, 1996.</b>";
quote[464]="<b>\"The implication of Roe vs. Wade is that we human beings decide not only on the value,<br>but even on the humanity of that life in the womb--of human life.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Missouri Right To Life, October 4, 1996</b>";
quote[465]="<b>\"I listen to people on the pro-abortion side<br>telling me that this is a mothers choice,<br>that the mother gets to decide whether the child is human or not,<br>whether the child is living or not,<br>whether the child has rights or not in the womb.<br>And then I go back to that great Declaration, and what do I find?<br>I find that the Declaration makes it real clear:<br>we are not human by our mothers choice.<br>We do not have rights by our mothers will.<br>That Declaration says that we are human by Gods creation,<br>and we have rights by His determination, not by ours!\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Christian prayer service in Michigan, July 9, 1996.</b>";
quote[466]="<b>\"Some people think that abortion is about whether a woman has the \"right to chose.\"<br>Other people think abortion is about whether that child in the womb lives or dies.<br>At a very fundamental level, both sides are wrong--<br>because what abortion is really about is whether there is a God,<br>and whether were going to respect His will.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Christian prayer service in Michigan, July 9, 1996.</b>";
quote[467]="<b>\"Out of respect for Gods authority, we must limit our own choices to respect the choice that He has already made.&nbsp; And that's the real issue that is at stake in abortion.&nbsp; Are we going to define our freedom in such a way that we put our will, the mothers will, any human will in the place of Gods will?&nbsp; Or are we going to do as our Founders did, and set as the foundation stone of liberty the existence and authority of God?\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Christian prayer service in Michigan, July 9, 1996.</b>";
quote[468]="<b>\"The crisis that we face is a crisis that we can see<br>haunting the lives of our children and claiming those lives in the streets and in the womb.<br>It's a crisis that we can see stalking the hallways of our schools with fear and violence,<br>and it's a crisis that we can see in the crumbling structure of our family lives.<br>It is the crisis of our moral heart.&nbsp; It is the crisis of our understanding of freedom,<br>which has been taken from that idea of self-government, and discipline, and responsibility<br>with which the country was born, and turned instead into a licentious curse upon this nation.<br>We must remove that curse.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Speech at the Alamo, June 21, 1996.</b>";
quote[469]="<b>\"They're using the body now as the weapon with which to kill the spirit!&nbsp; You know how I can prove it?&nbsp; I can prove it every time a young woman walks in to an abortion clinic and asks them to take the life of her baby.&nbsp; Because when she opens her mouth and asks them to slay that which God has placed within her, she is saying that 'for the sake of this body, I will kill my living soul.'\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Trinity Chapel in Compton, California, August 23, 1995.</b>";
quote[470]="<b>\"The love that we destroy when we kill our unborn children in the womb  is the love that is not there for the children born when they hunger in the streets, when they thirst for caring, when they need the touch and hand of a father, but that father's gone today, or never knew even that they lived.&nbsp; We are killing more than unborn babies.&nbsp; We are killing everything it takes to live and love as families, and communities, as decent human beings, and children of the Creator, God.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Trinity Chapel in Compton, California, August 23, 1995.</b>";
quote[471]="<b>\"It's time that we began to understand that the whole root of our problem, at a practical level, lies in that moral destruction of the family, and the effort to substitute government for family in our public life.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Speech in Santa Barbara, May 7, 1995.</b>";
quote[472]="<b>\"The abortion issue is a Declaration issue.<br>It's an issue that goes to the very heart of our principles and how we apply them.<br>It is like the issue of slavery and the issue of civil rights:<br>an issue of whether or not we really acknowledge the transcendent authority<br>on the basis of which we have our rights,<br>or whether we are going to arrogate that authority to ourselves<br>and declare that we have the right to draw the line in determining<br>who is human and who is not.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Newt Gingrich's GOPAC, May 1, 1995.</b>";
quote[473]="<b>\"[No] human being, whether it be a mother or a slave-owner,<br>has the right to treat another human life as property.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Newt Gingrich's GOPAC, May 1, 1995.</b>";
quote[474]="<b>\"There are some issues you can escape and run away from, but in American history, you never get away from the Declaration issues.&nbsp; They haunt you until you resolve them, or until they resolve you. . . . We have such an issue on the table before us today, and you and I both know it.&nbsp; The abortion issue is a Declaration issue.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Newt Gingrich's GOPAC, May 1, 1995.</b>";
quote[475]="<b>\"When I hear folks stand before Republican gatherings and tell us that, well, we should just take the abortion issue out of our politics and forget about it by being silent on it --it's just a 'private issue' --that's to me like saying what they said in the 19th century.&nbsp Do you realize there were people in the 19th century who thought slavery was a private issue?\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Delaware State Republican Dinner, April 8, 1995.</b>";
quote[476]="<b>\"Look at what's happening in the streets of our cities.<br>Look at what's happening to our families today.<br>Do you think that the decline of marriage and the moral dissolution of the family is a money problem?<br>Or do you think it's a problem that comes from putting the self first,<br>from deciding that there are no obligations that have to be respected,<br>and at the end of the day freedom is just another kind of empty licentiousness?<br>We know better, and our Founders knew better, and it's time that we get back to the truth.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Candidate Event in New Hampshire, February 19, 1995.</b>";
quote[477]="<b>\"We are not going to remain a free people if we insist on being a corrupt and licentious people.&nbsp; We are not going to remain a free people if we arrogate to ourselves the right to destroy the rights of others.&nbsp; And that's exactly what we are doing when we embrace the so-called 'pro-choice,' the truly pro-abortion, agenda.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Candidate Event in New Hampshire, February 19, 1995.</b>";
quote[478]="<b>\"Freedom requires that, at the end of the day, you accept the constraint that is required, the respect for the laws of nature and nature's God that say unequivocally that your daughters do not have the right to do what is wrong, that our sons do not have the right to do what is wrong.&nbsp; They do not have the right to steal bread from the mouths of the innocent; they do not have the right to steal life from the womb of the unborn.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Candidate Event in New Hampshire, February 19, 1995.</b>";
quote[479]="<b>\"When it comes to deciding whether we shall stand by<br>the great principle that declares that all human beings are created equal,<br>and endowed by their Creator with the right to life,<br>there is no choice for silence!\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Candidate Event in New Hampshire, February 19, 1995.</b>";
quote[480]="<b>\"We don't have money problems.&nbsp; We have moral problems.&nbsp; And it's time we stood up and faced that truth!\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Candidate Event in New Hampshire, February 19, 1995.</b>";
quote[481]="<b>\"Those who are recommending<br>that we pull the pro-life plank out of the Republican Party platform<br>are recommending, as some people decided in the Whig Party<br>in the years before the Civil War,<br>that they would be silent on the great issue of principle that faced this nation.<br>And you see what happened to the Whigs.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Candidate Event in New Hampshire, February 19, 1995.</b>";
quote[482]="<b>\"Since the U.N. had democratic forms, since it was couched in terms of certain kinds of democratic principles, our language was, in a way, a funny kind of way, the language of the United Nations.&nbsp; But as time went on, what you discovered was the words were like vessels.&nbsp; And our enemies were coming up, drilling holes in it, draining out our meaning, and pouring in their own.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes\">Alan Keyes</a>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\"On the United Nations\", March 9, 1989.</b>";
quote[483]="<b>\"When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct,<br>our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.<br>Ye abandoned minions of an infatuated ministry,<br>if peradventure any should yet remain among us,<br>remember that a Warren and Montgomery are numbered among the dead.<br><br>Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say,<br>What should be the reward of such sacrifices?&nbsp; Bid us and our posterity bow the knee,<br>supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap,<br>to glut the avarice of the men<br>who have let loose on us the dogs of war<br>to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?<br><br>If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom,<br>go from us in peace.&nbsp; We ask not your counsels or arms.<br>Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.<br>May your chains sit lightly upon you,<br>and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!\"<br><br> -- Samuel Adams, Philadelphia, 1 August 1772</b>";
quote[484]="<b>\"It is not the critic who counts,<br>not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,<br>or where the doer of deeds could have done better.<br>The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;<br>whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood;<br>who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;<br>who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course;<br>who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,<br>and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly;<br>so that his place shall never be<br>with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.\"<br> -- \"The Man in the Arena\", Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne, Paris, 23 April 1910.<br><small>(src: http://www.freerepublic.com/~inthearena/ )</small></b>"; 
quote[485]="<b>\"General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he didn't think there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America.&nbsp; His answer, <i>\"I believe that forgiving them is God's function.&nbsp; Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.\"</i></b>";
quote[486]="<b>\"I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus,<br>as preeminent specimens of logic, taste and that sententious<br>brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer.<br>Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[487]="<b>\"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.<br>We grow old by deserting our ideals.\"<br> -- Samuel Ullman</b>";
quote[488]="<b>\"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a></b>";
quote[489]="<b>\"I fear that all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve!\"<br> -- Admiral Yamamoto, 1941</b>";
quote[490]="<b>\"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.\"<br> --Nathan Hale, American Patriot,<br>in his last words before being hanged by the British,<br>without a trial, this day, September 22, 1776.</b>";
quote[491]="<b>\"History will also give Occasion to expatiate on the Advantage of Civil Orders and Constitutions, how Men and their Properties are protected by joining in Societies and establishing Government; their Industry encouraged and rewarded, Arts invented, and Life made more comfortable: The Advantages of Liberty, Mischiefs of Licentiousness, Benefits arising from good Laws and a due Execution of Justice, &c.&nbsp; Thus may the first Principles of sound Politicks be fix'd in the Minds of Youth.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a></b>";
quote[492]="<b>\"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be,<br>first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern,<br>and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society;<br>and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions<br>for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804) or James Madison, Federalist No. 57</b>";
quote[493]="<b><i>\"We failed to react appropriately to them and, instead, displayed weakness,\"</i>&nbsp; the Kremlin leader said in a somber televised address that followed a week of devastating attacks linked to Chechen separatists.<br><i>\"And the weak are always beaten.\"</i><br> -- President Putin, 7Aug04<br><small>(quote source: Haaretz & Reuters, re terrorist school attack and killing of children in Belsan, Russia)</small></b>"; 
quote[494]="<b>\"The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.\"<br>~~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) American author and humorist<br>Click below for websites and books about Mark Twain:<br><a href=\"http://www.surfnetkids.com/related.php?t=Mark+Twain\">http://www.surfnetkids.com/related.php?t=Mark+Twain</a></b>"; 
quote[495]="<b>\"It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponent who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>"; 
quote[496]="<b>\"I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial.&nbsp; But I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended that any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers than another in marking out the limits of the powers of the several departments.\"<br> -- James Madison</b>"; 
quote[497]="<b>\"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected.&nbsp; No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.\"<br> --James Madison</b>"; 
quote[498]="<b>\"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.<be>While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued;<br>but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.\" -- Samuel Adams</b>"; 
quote[499]="<b>\"In a word, I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>"; 
quote[500]="<b>\"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...<br>disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...<br>Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants;<br>they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides,<br>for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.\"<br> -- Cesare Beccaria</b>"; 
quote[501]="<b>\"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>"; 
quote[502]="<b>\"We do not admire a man of timid peace.\"<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt</b>"; 
quote[503]="<b>\"Your love of liberty --<br>your respect for the laws --<br> your habits of industry --<br>and your practice of the moral<br>and religious obligations,<br>are the strongest claims<br>to national and individual happiness.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797, letter to the residents of Boston, 1789</b><br><br>http://patriotpost.us/historic/quotes/";
quote[504]="<b>\"Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804)</b>"; 
quote[505]="<b>\"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.\"<br> -- President Franklin Pierce</b>";
quote[506]="<b>\"A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.<br>A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution;<br>and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory,<br>must, in practice, be a bad government.\"<br> -- Joseph Story</b>";
quote[507]="<b>\"Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners.<br>... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a></b>";
quote[508]="<b>\"Society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.\"<br> -- John Adams</b>";
quote[509]="<b>\"Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.\"<br> -- James Madison</b>"; 
quote[510]="<b>\"It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.\"<br> -- Felix Frankfurter</b>"; 
quote[511]="<b>\"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.\"<br> -- John Paul Jones</b>"; 
quote[512]="<b>\"Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom.&nbsp; I hope you will make good use of it.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jqa6/index.htm\">John Quincy Adams</a> (b.1767-d.1848), 6th President of the United States: 1825-1829</b>"; 
quote[513]="<b>\"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances,<br>with any portion of the foreign world.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>"; 
quote[514]="<b>\"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.&nbsp; Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.&nbsp; The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce.\"<br> -- James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President<br>Source: Federalist No. 45</b><br><br>sources:  The Patriot Post &amp; http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Madison.Quote.FEF7";
quote[515]="<b>\"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind.\"<br> -- declared George Washington of the American Revolution<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";  
quote[516]="<b>\"Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor.&nbsp; The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak;&nbsp; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.\"<br> -- Thomas Paine</b>";
quote[517]="<b>\"</b>'</b>Tis well.\"<br> -- last words of <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";
quote[518]="<b>\"When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[519]="<b>\"One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[520]="<b>\"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,<br>peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first,<br>the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.\"<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States</b>";
quote[521]="<b>\"How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit,<br>in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?\"<br>  --James Madison, Federalist No. 41</b>";
quote[522]="<b>\"It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[523]="<b>\"The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power.&nbsp;  A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.\"<br>  --<a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804), Federalist No. 11</b>";
quote[524]="<b>\"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.<br><br>They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[525]="\"It's a truth seldom acknowledged: Christians created America.&nbsp; Those settlers who most influenced the course of our nation (including the Pilgrims and Puritans) were committed Christians, who...drew their inspiration from the Hebrew Bible.&nbsp; Overwhelmingly, the Founding Fathers were men of faith. ... Throughout the course of our national existence, America has been led by individuals guided by a Christian worldview -- from [Presidents] George Washington to George W. Bush. ... Moreover, I believe America's survival rests with Christians.&nbsp; This nation was founded on Biblical morality and grew to greatness with that code.&nbsp; Without it, America cannot long endure. ... If America isn't one nation under God, what will it be?&nbsp; One nation under a culture that produces 1.4 million violent crimes (murders, rapes and assaults), 1.3 million abortions, and one million new cases of venereal disease each year?\"<br> -- Don Feder</b>";
quote[526]="\"It's always a source of amazement to me how the courts, the lawyers and the bureaucrats can twist the words of the Constitution to mean anything they want them to mean. ... Take, for example, the First Amendment, the words of which have been distorted into meaning that God and religion, primarily Christianity, have no place in public life and that Christmas itself should be abolished from public schools, public buildings and public places.&nbsp; Yet what does the First Amendment actually say regarding religion?&nbsp; Here it is: <b>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.</b> That's all it says.&nbsp; After that it talks about free speech, a free press and the right of the people to petition the government.&nbsp; But out of those 16 words regarding the relationship of religion to government, the courts over the years have steadily issued rulings based on the first 10 words of the amendment and ignoring the last six that go far beyond anything the amendment even hints at.&nbsp; If words mean what they say it seems to me what the amendment is saying is that Congress cannot pass a law that would establish a national religion, be it Christianity, Islam, Baal worship or anything else.&nbsp; And, at the same time, it, meaning Congress, cannot pass a law in any way banning the practice of religion.&nbsp; Seems pretty plain to me.\"<br> -- Lyn Nofziger</b>";
quote[527]="<b>\"Tim Allen, comedian, had this to say in 2004 about Martha Stewart:<br><br>\"Boy, I feel safer now that she's behind bars.&nbsp; Meanwhile O.J. and Kobe are walking around; Osama Bin Laden, too... But they take the one woman in America willing to cook, clean and work in the yard, and haul her .. to jail.</b>"; 
quote[528]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.&nbsp; History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.&nbsp; Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.&nbsp; So let's not have any native militia or native police.&nbsp; German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country.\"<br> --Adolf Hitler, dinner talk on April 11, 1942</b><br><small>quoted in Hitler's Table Talk 1941-44: His Private Conversations, Second Edition (1973), Pg. 425-426.&nbsp; Translated by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens.&nbsp; Introduced and with a new preface by H. R. Trevor-Roper.&nbsp; The original German papers were known as Bormann-Vermerke</small>.</b>"; 
quote[529]="<b>\"It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression<br>...that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary;<br>...working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow,<br>and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>"; 
quote[530]="<b>\"There are certain social principles in human nature, from which we may draw the most solid conclusions with respect to the conduct of individuals and of communities.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804)</b>";
quote[531]="<b>\"The Constitution...is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809<br>..in letter to Judge Spencer Roane, September 6, 1819</b>"; 
quote[532]="<b>\"But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804), Federalist No. 32</b>";
quote[533]="<b>\"Is it the Fourth?\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, last words.&nbsp; Jefferson died July 4, 1826.<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>"; 
quote[534]="<small>Well a man come on the 6 o'clock news<br>Said somebody's been shot, somebody's been abused<br>Somebody blew up a building<br>Somebody stole a car<br>Somebody got away<br>Somebody didn't get too far yeah<br>They didn't get too far<br><br>Grand pappy told my pappy, back in my day, son<br>A man had to answer for the wicked that he done<br>Take all the rope in Texas<br>Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys<br>Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>Justice is the one thing you should always find<br>You got to saddle up your boys<br>You got to draw a hard line<br>When the gun smoke settles well sing a victory tune<br>Well all meet back at the local saloon<br>Well raise up our glasses against evil forces<br>Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses<br><br>We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds<br>We've got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets<br>Its time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground<br>Sendem all to their maker and hell settle em down<br>You can bet hell set em down cause<br><br>Chorus (x2)<br><br>Song: \"Beer for my horses\"<br>Sung by: Toby Keith/Willie Nelson<br>Written by Toby Keith and Scott Emerick.<br>( Tokeco Tunes/Sony-ATV  Songs LLC dba Tree Publishing Co./Big Yellow Dog Music.)<br>From \"Unleashed\",  2002, Dreamworks.</small>";
quote[535]="<b>\"Abortion is America's Holocaust!\"<br> -- Me.&nbsp; Robert Harrold<br>El Centro, California (1996)</b>";
quote[536]="<b>\"Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure what life would be if those teachings were removed.&nbsp; We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards to which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.\"<br> -- President Theodore Roosevelt</b>";
quote[537]="<b>\"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws...<br>All the miseries and evils which men suffer from - crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war - proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.\"<br> -- Noah Webster</b>";
quote[538]="<b>\"There is a time for all things,<br>a time to preach and a time to pray,<br>but those times have passed away.<br>There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.\"<br> -- Peter Muhlenberg<br><br><small>(<a href=\"http://www.cbsd.org/pennsylvaniapeople/level1_biographies/Biographies_Level_1/peter_muhlenberg_level_1.htm\">Pennsylvania statesmen: \"John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg\", b.1745-d.1807; Clergyman, Soldier, Politician</a>)</b><br><br>link sources: http://www.cbsd.org/pennsylvaniapeople/level1_biographies/Biographies_Level_1/peter_muhlenberg_level_1.htm<br>and the <i>The Federalis Patriot</i>: <a href=\"http://cf.heritage.org/almanac/quotations.cfm\">Founders' Quote Daily</a></small>";
quote[539]="<b>\"It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.&nbsp; They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed -- that is, an extension of the revenue.\" -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm\">Alexander Hamilton</a> (b.1755-d.1804)</b>";
quote[540]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning, Prophetic:</font><br>\"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare,<br>and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare,<br> they may take the care of religion into their own hands;<br>they may appoint teachers in every State,<br>county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury;<br>they may take into their own hands the education of children,<br>establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;<br>they may assume the provision of the poor;<br>they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads;<br>in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police,<br>would be thrown under the power of Congress.<br>... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for,<br>it would subvert the very foundations,<br>and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.\" -- James Madison</b>";
quote[541]="<b>\"Will Rogers once said that the problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.\"<br> -- Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr., historian</b><br><br>(author of \"The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.\")";
quote[542]="<b>\"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, \"What should be the reward of such sacrifices?\" Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?&nbsp; If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace.&nbsp; We ask not your counsels or arms.&nbsp; Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.&nbsp; May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!\"<br> -- Samuel Adams, Philadelphia,1 August 1776</b>";
quote[543]="<b>\"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families.<br>... How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?\"<br> -- Samuel Adams</b>";
quote[544]="<b>\"I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.&nbsp;  And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator &amp; Presidential Candidate</b>";
quote[545]="<b>\"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.\"<br> --Thomas Paine</b>";
quote[546]="<b>\"To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";
quote[547]="\"Murders are on the increase... I attribute the increase to the Supreme Court... the murderer has a long breathing spell before his case comes before the Supreme Court, then the conviction may be quashed upon the flimsiest technicalities.&nbsp; The Supreme Court never touches on the merit of the case.\"<br><br>\"Sympathy should not be reserved wholly for the criminal.&nbsp; I believe in standing on the right side of the innocent... quiet, peaceful, law-abiding citizen, is there no sympathy for him?\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/aug/papr/du_roybean.html\">Judge Phantly [Roy] Bean</a>,<br>Justice of the Peace for Precinct No. 6, Pecos County, <a href=\"http://www.qsl.net/w5www/roybean.html\">The Law West of the Pecos</a><br>in Langtry, Texas in West Texas' Chihuahuan Desert 50 miles from Del Rio<br>[<a href=\"http://users.ricc.net/ramrod/Roy_Bean.htm\">b. Mason County, Kentucky, c1825-d. March 15, 1903 in Del Rio, Tx.</a>]";
quote[548]="<b>\"If you can read this, thank a teacher.<br>If you can read this in English, thank a veteran.\"</b><br> -- Unknown";
quote[549]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.\"</b><br> -- BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Prime Minister of England,<br>was attributed with this statement in 1844";
quote[550]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.\"</b><br> -- JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER, U.S. Supreme Court Justice";
quote[551]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation.\"</b><br> -- JOHN F. HYLAN, Mayor of New York 1918 - 1925";
quote[552]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.\"</b><br> -- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, U.S. President,<br>in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House";
quote[553]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"..national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.\"</b><br> -- CARROLL QUIGLEY, Professor of History at Georgetown University,<br>member of the CFR (one of the U.S. Organizations dedicated to World Government)";
quote[554]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States.&nbsp; The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - POLITICAL, MONETARY, INTELLECTUAL, and ECCLESIASTICAL.\"</b><br> -- BARRY GOLDWATER, U.S. Senator (Arizona) in his book \"WITH NO APOLOGIES\"";
quote[555]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.\"</b><br> -- PETER HOAGLAND, Nebraska State Senator and Humanist,<br>speaking on radio in 1983 with American Pastor and Patriot Everett Sileven";
quote[556]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it.&nbsp; The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.\"</b><br> -- JAMES PAUL WARBURG, Foreign Agent of the Rothschild Dynasty,<br>major player in the Federal Reserve Act scam: on February 17, 1950, while speaking before the United States Senate";
quote[557]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a NEW WORLD ORDER.\"</b><br> -- ROBERT KENNEDY, former U.S. Attorney General of the U.S., 1967";
quote[558]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.&nbsp; Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance.&nbsp; The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.\"</b><br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809";
quote[559]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.\"</b><br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jg20/index.htm\">James Abram Garfield</a> (b.1831-d.1881)<br>20th President of the United States: 1881-1881";
quote[560]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.\"</b><br> -- HENRY FORD, Founder of Ford Motor Company,<br>comment on the privately owned \"Federal\" Reserve System";
quote[561]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known.&nbsp; I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the FED.&nbsp; They are not government institutions.&nbsp; They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers..\"</b><br> -- LEWIS MCFADDIN, U.S. Congressman";
quote[562]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism.&nbsp; But under the name of \"liberalism\" they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.\"</b><br> -- NORMAN THOMAS, former U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate";
quote[563]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. ... It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda ... Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class (Elite).&nbsp; The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.\"</b><br> -- BERTRAND RUSSELL, philosopher, educator and atheist";
quote[564]="<b>\"We have staked the whole future of American civilization,<br>not upon the power of government, far from it.&nbsp; We have staked the future ... upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves,<br>to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.\"</b><br> -- James Madison";
quote[565]="<b>\"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people.&nbsp; It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.\"</b><br> -- John Adams";
quote[566]="<b>\"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests.\"</b><br> -- Andrew Jackson";
quote[567]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"1. Corrupt the young; get them away from religion.&nbsp; Get them interested in sex.&nbsp; Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.<br>2. By specious argument cause the breakdown of old moral virtues; honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.<br>3. Encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.<br>4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.&nbsp; (Racial differences?)<br>5. Get people's minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, plays, and other trivialities.<br>6. Get control of all means of publicity.&nbsp; (Media)<br>7. Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy (disgrace).<br>8. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscation and leaving the population helpless.<br>This is only a partial list.\"</b><br> -- COMMUNIST RULES FOR REVOLUTION (Captured at Dusseldorf in May 1919 by Allied Forces)";
quote[568]="<b>\"THE SAID CONSTITUTION SHALL NEVER BE CONSTRUED TO AUTHORIZE CONGRESS TO PREVENT THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE PEACEABLE CITIZENS FORM KEEPING THEIR OWN ARMS.\"</b><br> -- Samuel Adams";
quote[569]="<b>\"THE GREAT OBJECT IS THAT EVERY MAN BE ARMED.&nbsp; EVERYONE WHO IS ABLE MAY HAVE A GUN.\"</b><br> -- Patrick Henry";
quote[570]="<b>\"AMERICANS NEED NEVER FEAR THEIR GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING ARMED, WHICH THE AMERICANS POSSESS OVER THE PEOPLE OF ALMOST EVERY OTHER NATION.\"</b><br> -- James Madison";
quote[571]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a MONOPOLY OVER WEAPONS and COMMUNICATIONS, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.\" (U.S. conspirators already control the major communications sources, now they have to - GET THE GUNS!).</b><br> -- GEORGE KEENAN, 1964";
quote[572]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"I am one who believes that as a first step the U.S. should move expeditiously to disarm the civilian population, other than police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols and revolvers ... no one should have a right to anonymous ownership or use of a gun.\"</b><br> -- PROFESSOR DEAN MORRIS, Government employee,<br>Director of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), in testimony to Congress<br><br>His government LEAA administration would later publish, \"There can be no right of privacy in regard to armament ... We seek a disarmed populace.\"";
quote[573]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"If the opposition (citizen) disarms, well and good.&nbsp; If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.\"</b><br> -- Joseph Stalin";
quote[574]="<b>\"Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge.&nbsp; Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights, ...\"</b><br> -- Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1786";
quote[575]="<b>\"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?&nbsp;  Forbid it, Almighty God.&nbsp;  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!\"</b><br> -- Patrick Henry";
quote[576]="<b>\"Thomas Jefferson still lives.\"</b><br> -- John Adams, last words";
quote[577]="<b>\"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.\"</b><br> -- Marcus Tullius Cicero";
quote[578]="<b>\"There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/index.htm\">George Washington</a> (b.1732-d.1799)<br>1st president of the United States: 1789-1797</b>";
quote[579]="<b>\"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. ...[T]hat alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.\"</b><br> --James Madison";
quote[580]="<b>\"A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward[s] another species..\"</b><br> --James Madison";
quote[581]="<b>\"Resolve to perform what you ought.&nbsp;  Perform without fail what you resolve.\"</b><br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/frankxx.htm\">Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): Biography</a> and a <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm\">Literary History</a><br>(Autobiography, 1771)<br>Reference: Benjamin Franklin: Writings, Lemay, ed., Library of America (1385)";
quote[582]="<b>\"One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society:<br>that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.\"</b><br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809";
quote[583]="<b>\"During a recent interview, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain was asked by one of his parliament members as to why he believes so much in America ...and why does he think America is on the right track?<br><br>Blair's reply: \"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ...<br>and how many want out.\"<br> -- 2005";
quote[584]="<b>\"Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act.&nbsp; In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.\"</b><br> -- James Madison (Federalist No. 39, 1788)<br><br>Reference: <a href=\"http://www.thefed.com\">The Federalist</a>";
quote[585]="<b>\"A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Thomas Ritchie, 25 December 1820)<br>Reference: Jefferson: Writings, Peterson ed., Library of America<br>(1446)<br><br> -- <a href=\"http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm\">Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809";
quote[586]="<b>\"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...<br>Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants;<br>they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides,<br>for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.\"<br> -- Cesare Beccaria (On Crimes and Punishment, quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book)<br>Reference: The Commonplace Book, Jefferson (298-316)\"</b><br><small>quote source: <a href=\"http://cf.heritage.org/almanac/quotations.cfm\">Heritage Foundation's Founders' Almanac website, The Federalist Patriot, Founders' Quote Daily</a>";
quote[587]="<b>\"We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt-ridden, deluded, and other liberal bed-wetters.&nbsp; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a Bill of No Rights.\"<BR><BR>ARTICLE I:<BR>You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV or any other form of wealth.&nbsp; More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.<BR><BR>ARTICLE II:<BR>You do not have the right to never be offended.&nbsp; This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone <NOBR>&mdash; not</NOBR> just you! You may leave the room, change the channel, or express a different opinion, but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.<BR><BR>ARTICLE III:<BR>You do not have the right to be free from harm.&nbsp; If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.<BR><BR>ARTICLE IV:<BR>You do not have the right to free food and housing.&nbsp; Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.<BR><BR>ARTICLE V:<BR>You do not have the right to free health care That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care.<BR><BR>ARTICLE VI:<BR>You do not have the right to physically harm other people.&nbsp; If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.<BR><BR>ARTICLE VII:<BR>You do not have the right to the possessions of others.&nbsp; If you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.<BR><BR>ARTICLE VIII:<BR>You don't have the right to demand that our children risk their lives in foreign wars to soothe your aching conscience.&nbsp; We hate oppressive governments and won't lift a finger to stop you from going to fight if you'd like.&nbsp; However, we do not enjoy parenting the entire world and do not want to spend so much of our time battling each and every little tyrant with a military uniform and a funny hat.<BR><BR>ARTICLE IX:<BR>You don't have the right to a job.&nbsp; Sure, all of us want all of you to have one, and will gladly help you along in hard times, ut we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.<BR><BR>ARTICLE X:<BR>You do not have the right to happiness.&nbsp; Being an American means that you have the right to pursue happiness <NOBR>&mdash; which,</NOBR> by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an overabundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.<BR><BR>If you agree, we strongly urge you to forward this to as many people as you can.&nbsp; No, you don't have to, and nothing tragic will befall you should you not forward it.&nbsp; We just think it is about time common sense is allowed to flourish <NOBR>&mdash; call</NOBR> it the age of reason revisited.<BR><FONT COLOR=#2D8F26 FACE=\"Arial\"><B>Origins:</B></FONT> &nbsp; <A HREF=\"http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/1997_98/house/gash037.htm\" TARGET=kaye>Mitchell Kaye</A>, a Georgia state representative from Marietta, is not the originator of the piece.&nbsp; The famed \"Bill of No Rights\" was written in 1993 by <A HREF=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20030801200633/http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0010/campaign2000.html\" TARGET=napper>Lewis Napper</A>, a self-described amateur philosopher from Mississippi who ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 2000 as a Libertarian.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.snopes.com/language/document/norights.asp\" target=\"_new\">http://www.snopes.com/language/document/norights.asp</a>";
quote[588]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Remember democracy never lasts long.&nbsp;  It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.&nbsp;  There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.\"</b><br> -- John Adams (letter to John Taylor, 15 April 1814)<br>Reference: Original Intent, Barton (335);<br>original The Works of John Adams, C.F. Adams, ed., vol. 6 (484)<br><br>Founders' Almanac at the address below:<b><br><a href=\"http://cf.Heritage.org/almanac/quotations.cfm\">The Federalist Patriot<br>Founders' Quote Daily";
quote[589]="<b>\"Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to \"bind me in all cases whatsoever\" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?\"</b><br> -- Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)<br>Reference: Paine, Collected Writings, Library of America, p. 97<br><br>Founders' Almanac at the address below:<b><br><a href=\"http://cf.Heritage.org/almanac/quotations.cfm\">The Federalist Patriot<br>Founders' Quote Daily";
quote[590]="<b>\"There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses.&nbsp; And he can double the reward on my head!\"</b><br> -- John Hancock (upon signing the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776)<br>Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett (29)<br><br>Founders' Almanac at the address below:<b><br><a href=\"http://cf.Heritage.org/almanac/quotations.cfm\">The Federalist Patriot<br>Founders' Quote Daily</a>";
quote[591]="<b>Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN<br>\"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.&nbsp; But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here.&nbsp; Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.&nbsp; We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.\"</b><br> -  Theodore Roosevelt, letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died.";
quote[592]="<b>\"Washington said, \"It is impossible to rightfully govern the world without God and the Bible\" and history has fully demonstrated his words.\"</b><br> -- Grandmother.&nbsp; Grace Rees Harrold<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reference: Grandmother.&nbsp; Grace Rees Harrold,<br>Whittier, California, May 1964<br>Reference: \"A Journey Through The New Testament\", author: Harrold, Grace Rees; 1964, foreword (Grandmother)";
quote[593]="<b>In his 1935 State of the Union Address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) spoke to a nation mired in the Depression, but still marinated in conservative values:<br><br>\"Continued dependence\" upon welfare, said FDR, \"induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.&nbsp; To dole our relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.\"<b>";
quote[594]="<b>\"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.\"</b><br> -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903–1950)";
quote[595]="<b>\"The best form of taking care of troops is first-class training, for this saves unnecessary casualties.\"</b><br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel\">German Field-Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall)</a> <a href=\"http://hem.passagen.se/p47/rommel0.htm\"><b>Erwin</b> Johannes Eugen <b>Rommel</b></a><br>(<a href=\"http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel\">German Field Marshal and commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps in World War II</a><br><a href=\"http://www.achtungpanzer.com/gen1.htm\">November 15, 1891 - October 14, 1944</a>)<br>(nicknamed The Desert Fox (Der Wstenfuchs) <a href=\"http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/R/real_lives/rommel_t.html\">personal history</a>)";
quote[596]="<b>\"It is easy to take Liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.\"</b><br> -- Vice-President Dick Cheney";
quote[597]="<b>\"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.&nbsp; It both emboldens the blood, just it narrows the mind.&nbsp; And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry.&nbsp; Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.&nbsp; How do I know?&nbsp; For this is what I have done.&nbsp;  And I am Caesar.\"<br> -- Julius Caesar.";
quote[598]="<b><a href=\"http://www.snopes.com/quotes/macarthur.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"red\">Snopes: True/False?&nbsp; Questionable</font></a>.<br>\"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war.&nbsp; The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets.\"</b><br> -- General Douglas MacArthur, 1955<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(From Above Top Secret by Timothy Good)<br><br><small>(quote source: <a href=\"http://www.rense.com/general43/tm_nov.htm\">Rense.com, Timelines of UFO History, November</a>)</small>";
quote[599]="<b>\"Latin: Catapultam habeo.&nbsp; Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.\"<br><br>Translation: &nbsp;\"I have a catapult.&nbsp; Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.\"";
quote[600]="<b>\"Crime thrives on the indulgences of society.\"</b><br>from the movie \"Batman Begins\" #copy; 2005 Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc.";
quote[601]="<b>\"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in .. and how many want out.\"</b><br> -- Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain";
quote[602]="<b>\"Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.\"</b><br> -- Inscription on the Liberty Bell (Leviticus 25:10)";
quote[603]="<b>\"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.&nbsp;  But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god.&nbsp;  It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 17, 1782)</b>";
quote[604]="<b>\"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution.&nbsp;  Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Wilson Nicholas, 1803)<br>Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Memorial Edition),<br>Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 10:419.</b>";
quote[605]="<b>\"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.\"<br> -- George Washington, President of the United States";
quote[606]="<b>\"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society...\"<br> -- John Quincy Adams, President of the United States</b>";
quote[607]="<b>\"That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.\"<br> -- Andrew Jackson, President of the United States</b>";
quote[608]="<b>\"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given man.&nbsp; All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.&nbsp; But for it we could not know right from wrong.\"<br> -- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States</b>";
quote[609]="<b>\"It is the duty of nations as well as men to recognize the truth announced in Holy Scripture and proven by all of history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.\"<br> -- Abraham  Lincoln, President of the United States</b>";
quote[610]="<b>\"If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?\"<br> -- Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States</b>";
quote[611]="<b>\"Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible.\"<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States</b>";
quote[612]="<b>\"We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government ... not in the Constitution... (but) upon the capacity of each and every one of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.\"<br> -- James Madison, President of the United States</b>";
quote[613]="<b>\"The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country.&nbsp; There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.\"<br> -- Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States</b>";
quote[614]="<b>\"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof - Lev. XXV, v. X\"<br>Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10<br>Reference: TK</b>";
quote[615]="<b>\"Is it the Fourth?\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (evening July 3; Jefferson died the next morning, July 4th 1826)<br>Reference: Thomas Jefferson: A Life, Randal (594)<br><br>\"Thomas Jefferson still lives.\"<br> -- John Adams (after waking momentarily, afternoon July 4 1826)<br>Reference: The Works of John Adams, C.F. Adams, ed., vol. 1 (636)</b>";
quote[616]="<b>\"Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian.\"</b><br> -- Alexander Hamilton (speaking to his grieving wife, 7/12/1804)<br>Reference: Facts and Documents..., Editor of the Evening Post,<br>ed. (23); original letter from David Hosack, August 17, 1804";
quote[617]="<b>\"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.\"</b><br> -- Thomas Jefferson (Rights of British America, 1774)";
quote[618]="<b>\"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.\"</b><br> -- Samuel Adams (essay in The Public Advertiser, Circa 1749)<br>Reference: The Life and Public Service of Samuel Adams, William<br>Wells, vol. 1 (22)";
quote[619]="<b>\"All that is required for evil to triumph is for a few good men to do nothing.\"</b><br> -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797, Ireland-England, ..the \"father\" of modern conservatism)";
quote[620]="<b>Tolerance of evil on the part of our elites will destroy us as a people.</b>";
quote[621]="<b>\"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.&nbsp; It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.&nbsp; The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.\"</b><br> -- C. S. Lewis";
quote[622]="<b>\"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it.&nbsp; That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.\"<br> --  <i>Army's magazine of preventive maintenance</i></b>";
quote[623]="<b>\"Aim towards the Enemy.\"<br> --  <i>Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher</i></b>";
quote[624]="<b>\"If the enemy is in range, so are you.\"<br> --  <i>Infantry Journal</i></b>";
quote[625]="<b>\"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.\"<br> --  <i>U.S. Air Force Manual</i></b>";
quote[626]="<b>\"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.\"<br> --  <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_McArthur\"><i>General Douglas MacArthur</a></i></b>";
quote[627]="<b>\"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.\"<br> --  <i>Infantry Journal</i></b>";
quote[628]="<b>\"Five second fuses only last three seconds.\"<br> --  <i>Infantry Journal</i></b>";
quote[629]="<b>\"Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything .\"<br> --  <i>U.S. Navy Swabbie</i></b>";
quote[630]="<b>\"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.\"<br> --  <i>David Hackworth</i></b>";
quote[631]="<b>\"No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection\"<br> --  <i>Joe Gay</i></b>";
quote[632]="<b>\"Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.\"<br> --  <i>Unknown Marine Recruit</i></b>";
quote[633]="<b>\"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you.\"<br> --  <i>Your Buddies</i></b>";
quote[634]="<b>\"If you see a bomb technician running, follow him.\"<br> --  <i>USAF Ammo Troop</i></b>";
quote[635]="<b>\"Airspeed, altitude and brains.&nbsp; Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.\"</b>";
quote[636]="<b>\"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.\"<br> --  <i>Bob Hoover (renowned aerobatic and test pilot)</i></b>";
quote[637]="<b>\"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers!&nbsp; In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.&nbsp; Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact.\"<br> -- General Robert E. Lee</b><br>Allegiance<b>:</b> United States of America &amp; Confederate States of America<br>Years of service 1829–61 (USA) &amp; 1861–65 (CSA), Rank<b>:</b> Colonel (USA) &amp; General (CSA)<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee";
quote[638]="<b>\"Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.\"<br> --  George Washington (letter to Benedict Arnold, 14 September 1775)</b>";
quote[639]="<b>\"[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.\"<br> --  Thomas Jefferson (letter to Abigail Adams, 11 September 1804)<br><br>Reference: Original Intent, Barton (265-66); original Memoir,<br>Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas</b>";
quote[640]="<b>\"Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners.&nbsp; St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays.&nbsp; Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin (letter to Collinson, 9 May 1753)<br><br>Reference: Vindicating the Founders, West, 145.</b>";
quote[641]="<b>\"Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds even of children, and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our Ancestors for these great Purposes be encouraged by the Government.&nbsp; For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd.&nbsp; On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775)<br><br>Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, 261</b>";
quote[642]="<b>\"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.\"<br> -- Justice Joseph Story</b>";
quote[643]="<b>\"It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.\"<br> -- James Madison (letter to the Dey of Algiers, August 1816)<br><br>Reference: Madison <sources.htm>, III, page 17</b>";
quote[644]="<b>\"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802)<br><br>Reference: respec quoted</b>";
quote[645]="\"<small>Supreme Court, April 18, 2007<br><br>The Supreme Court..upheld a federal law today [We.18Apr07] banning a controversial abortion procedure...<br><br>The justices ruled, 5 to 4, that a law passed by Congress in 2003 and signed by President Bush does not violate the Constitution by imposing an undue burden on a woman's right to end a pregnancy.&nbsp; The majority said its ruling reflects the governments \legitimate, substantial interest in preserving and promoting fetal life.\<br><br>\The act, on its face, is not void for vagueness and does not impose an undue burden from any overbreadth [over breadth],\ Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court, rejecting key arguments of the laws opponents.<br><br>The majority upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, whose very name can set off heated debate.&nbsp; The procedure addressed is known medically as \<i>intact dilation and evacuation</i>\ or \<i>D and X</i>,\ short for dilation and extraction.&nbsp; It involves partly removing an intact fetus [live baby], then destroying the skull to complete the abortion [kill the child.]<br><br>(quote: David Stout, CNN, Published: Washington, April 18, 2007)<br><br><a href=\"http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/\">Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Partial Birth Abortion</a><br><br><a href=\"http://lashawnbarber.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/partial_birth_opinion.pdf\">The Opinion</a><b>:</b><br><br>SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES<br>Syllabus><br>GONZALES, ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CARHART ET AL.<br>CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT<br>No. 05?380. Argued November 8, 2006--Decided April 18, 2007</small>";
quote[646]="\"[W]hereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion.&nbsp; The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.\"<br><br>-- Federal Farmer (Antifederalist Letter, No.18, 25 January 1778)<br><br>Reference<b>:</b> The Complete Anti-Federalist, Storing,<br>ed., vol. 2 (342) The Founders Constitution<br><br>reference<b>:</b> <a href=\"http://www.rightsofthepeople.com/freedom_documents/anti_federalist_papers/index.php\">AntiFederalist Papers No. 1-85</a><br><br>\"The debates that occurred prior to the adoption of the Constitution For the united States.\"";
quote[647]="<b>\"It is not necessary to enumerate the many advantages, that arise from this custom of early marriages.&nbsp;  They comprehend all the society can receive from this source; from the preservation, and increase of the human race.&nbsp;  Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the happiness of individuals, resolve themselves into customs and habits, favourable, in the highest degree, to society.&nbsp;  In no case is this more apparent, than in the customs of nations respecting marriage.\"<br><br>-- Samuel Williams (The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, 1794)<br><br>Reference: American Political Writing during the Founding Era:<br>1760-1805, Hyneman and Lutz, ed., vol. 2 (952)</b>";
quote[648]="<b>\"It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice.\"<br>--Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[649]="<b>\"Elections Aren't Won by Who Voted, They're Lost by Who Didn't\"<br> ~~ Me.&nbsp; Robert Harrold,<br>El Centro, California (1996)</b>";
quote[650]="<b>\"It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts, it's being willing.&nbsp; I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing.&nbsp; They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull a trigger.&nbsp; I won't.\"<br>  ~ John Wayne as 'John Bernard Books' in the \"The Shootist\"<br> -- (src: <a href=\"http://www.geocities.com/dukejohnwayne/JohnWayneAudio.htm\">John Wayne Audio</a>), <a href=\"./sounds/Willing.wav\">Listen</a> (210KB, .wav)</b>";  
quote[651]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.\"<br> -- Dr. Lee DeForest, 'Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television'</b>";
quote[652]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"The bomb will never go off.&nbsp; I speak as an expert in explosives.\"<br> -- Admiral William Leahy , US Atomic Bomb Project</b>"; 
quote[653]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.\"<br> -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923</b>"; 
quote[654]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.\"<br> -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949</b>"; 
quote[655]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.\"<br> -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943</b>";
quote[656]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.\"<br> -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957</b>";
quote[657]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"But what is it good for?'<br> -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.</b>"; 
quote[658]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"640K ought to be enough for anybody.\"<br> -- Bill Gates, 1981</b>"; 
quote[659]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.&nbsp; The device is inherently of no value to us.\"<br> -- Western Union internal memo, 1876</b>"; 
quote[660]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.&nbsp; Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?\"<br> -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s</b>"; 
quote[661]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.\"<br> -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service.&nbsp; (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)</b>";
quote[662]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.\"<br> -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in 'Gone With The Wind.'</b>";
quote[663]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"A cookie store is a bad idea.&nbsp; Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.\"<br> -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies</b>"; 
quote[664]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.\"<br> -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962</b>";
quote[665]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.\"<br> -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895</b>"; 
quote[666]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment.&nbsp; The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.\"<br> - - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M 'Post-It' Notepads.</b>";
quote[667]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"Drill for oil?&nbsp; You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?&nbsp; You're crazy.\"<br> -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.</b>"; 
quote[668]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.\"<br> - - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929</b>"; 
quote[669]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.\"<br> -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre , France</b>";
quote[670]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"Everything that can be invented has been invented.\"<br> -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899</b>";
quote[671]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"The super computer is technologically impossible.&nbsp; It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required.\"<br> -- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University</b>";
quote[672]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents.&nbsp; It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself.\"<br> -- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.</b>"; 
quote[673]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.\"<br> -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872</b>";
quote[674]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.\"<br> -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873</b>";
quote[675]="Famous last words..<br><b>\"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.\"<br> -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977</b>"; 
quote[676]="<b>\"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.\"<br> ~~ Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[677]="<b>\"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.&nbsp;  The ugliest is that man who thinks nothing is worth fighting and dying for and lets men better and braver than himself protect him.\"<br> -- John Stuart Mill, as quoted by Ronald Reagan in a speech to the marines at Camp Lejeune in the Fall of 1981</b>";
quote[678]="<b>\"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute.&nbsp;  But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours.&nbsp;  That's relativity.\"<br> -- Albert Einstein</b>"; 
quote[679]="<b>\"God does not play dice.\"<br> -- Albert Einstein</b>"; 
quote[680]="<b>\"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!&nbsp; Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.&nbsp; The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.&nbsp; A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity.&nbsp; The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.&nbsp; Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.&nbsp; No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.&nbsp; Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.&nbsp; It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.\"<br> -- The Right Honorable Sir Winston Churchill, 1899<br> -- (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 London)<br><br>Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) -- (born 30 November 1874 - died 24 January 1965)<br> -- (biographic source: <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill\">The Rt Hon Winston Churchill</a><br>[Listen to this Wikipedia article (3 parts)<b>:</b> <a href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Winston_Churchill_%28Part_1%29.ogg\">Part 1 of 3</a>, <a href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Winston_Churchill_%28Part_2%29.ogg\">Part 2 of 3</a>, <a href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Winston_Churchill_%28Part_3%29.ogg\">Part 3 of 3</a></b>";
quote[681]="<b>\"If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.\"</b>"; 
quote[682]="<b>\"Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.\"</b>"; 
quote[683]="<b>\"You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.\"</b>"; 
quote[684]="<b>\"Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.\"</b>"; 
quote[685]="<b>\"When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.\"</b>"; 
quote[686]="<b>\"The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.\"</b>"; 
quote[687]="<b>\"God created man.&nbsp;  Samuel Colt made them equal.\"</b>"; 
quote[688]="<b>\"Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.\"</b>"; 
quote[689]="<b>\"Assault is a behavior, not a device.\"</b>"; 
quote[690]="<b>\"You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.\"</b>"; 
quote[691]="<b>\"911:  Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.\"</b>"; 
quote[692]="<b>\"Calling an illegal alien an \"undocumented immigrant\" is like  calling a drug dealer an \"unlicensed pharmacist.\"</b>"; 
quote[693]="<b>\"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.&nbsp; We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers.&nbsp; We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians.&nbsp; That's war.&nbsp; And this is war.\"<br> -- Ann Coulter</b>"; 
quote[694]="<b>\"If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.\"<br><br>\"Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing.&nbsp; But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.\" (on the morality of the firebombing campaign [<a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX61.html\" target=\"_new\">background</a>] )<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay\">General Curtis Emerson LeMay, USAF</a> (b.November 15, 1906 - d.October 3, 1990)<br>vice presidential running mate of independent candidate <a href=\http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace\">Governor George C. Wallace in 1968</a></b>"; 
quote[695]="<b>\"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay\">General Curtis Emerson LeMay, USAF</a> (b.November 15, 1906 - d.October 3, 1990)<br>vice presidential running mate of independent candidate <a href=\http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace\">Governor George C. Wallace in 1968</a></b>"; 
quote[696]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.\"<br> -- U.S. Senator Joseph Biden, 11/18/93, Associated Press interview.</b>"; 
quote[697]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn 'em all in, I would have done it.\"<br> -- Senator (D-Ca) Diane Feinstein<br>refering to what she wished she could have done with regard to \"assault weapons\"<br>(60 Minutes, CBS, 5 Feb. 1995)</b>";
quote[698]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans to feel safe.\"<br> -- U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein, quoted by AP, 11/18/93</b>";
quote[699]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The Mayor of New Orleans ordered all firearms to be confiscated from all the citizenry in NOLA during the Katrina disaster.&nbsp;  It was the largest seizure of weapons from American Citizens since the British seized all weapons in the Boston area during 1775!\"</b>";
quote[700]="<b>\"I would rather be your friend, but if you are not interested in that, I am prepared to be a capable and efficient enemy.\"<br> -- Jeff Cooper</b>";
quote[701]="<b>\"An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.\"</b>"; 
quote[702]="<b>\"America is not at war.&nbsp; The U.S. Military is at war.&nbsp; Sadly, America is at the mall.\"</b>";
quote[703]="<b>\"<table width=\"100%\"><tr><td valign=\"top\"><img src=\"http://www.harrold.org/rfhextra/images/President_TR454x599.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"599\" alt=\"photo of President Theodore Roosevelt\" border=\"0\"></td><td><b>The year is 1919, ......<br><br>Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1919.<br><br>\"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.&nbsp; But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here.&nbsp; Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.&nbsp; We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.\"<br><br>Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died. </b></td></tr></table></b>";
quote[704]="<b>\"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention.&nbsp; Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them.&nbsp; If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves\"<br><br>-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787)<br><br>Reference: The Learning of Liberty, Prangle, 111.</b>";
quote[705]="<b>\"All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor.&nbsp; To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity.&nbsp; And have we now forgotten that powerful friend?&nbsp; Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?&nbsp; I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men.&nbsp; And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?\"<br><br>-- Benjamin Franklin (To Colleagues at the Constitutional Convention)<br><br>Reference: Quoted by James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787.&nbsp; (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1987), pp. 209-</b>";
quote[706]="<b>\"It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.\"<br><br>-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Hugh P. Taylor, 4 October 1823)</b>";
quote[707]="<b>\"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[708]="<b>\"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[709]="<b>\"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[710]="<b>\"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[711]="<b>\"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (19811989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[712]="<b>\"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[713]="<b>\"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[714]="<b>\"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.&nbsp; I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[715]="<b>\"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it.&nbsp; If it keeps moving, regulate it.&nbsp; And if it stops moving, subsidize it.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan [1986] (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[716]="<b>\"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>"; 
quote[717]="<b>\"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.\"<br> -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.February 6, 1911 - d.June 5, 2004)<br>40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975).</b>";                               
quote[718]="<b>\"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.\"<br> --  The Constitution of the United States, Amendment II, proposed 25 Sep 1789; ratified 15 Dec 1791.</b>";
quote[719]="<b>\"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.&nbsp; And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!\"<br> --  Senator Barry Goldwater</b>"; 
quote[720]="<b>\"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy.&nbsp; However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who's crazy?\"<br> --  Andrew Ford</b>"; 
quote[721]="<b>\"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.\"<br> --  Edmund Burke</b>"; 
quote[722]="<b>\"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.\"<br> --  Thomas Jefferson</b>"; 
quote[723]="<b>\"Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.\"<br> --  Andrew Ford</b>"; 
quote[724]="<b>\"When the government fears the people, there is liberty.&nbsp; When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.\"<br> --  Thomas Jefferson.</b>"; 
quote[725]="<b>\"By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia', the 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms', our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy.&nbsp; Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country.&nbsp; For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.\"<br> --  Senator John F. Kennedy, 1960</b>"; 
quote[726]="<b>\"In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the \"collective\" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of \"the people\" to keep and bear arms... The phrase \"the people\" meant the same thing in the Second Amendment as it did in the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments-- that is, each and every free person.&nbsp; A select militia defined as only the privileged class entitled to keep and bear arms was considered an anathema to a free society, in the same way that Americans denounced select spokesmen approved by the government as the only class entitled to the freedom of the press.\" If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.\"<br> --  Stephen P. Holbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right</b>"; 
quote[727]="<b>\"It is my belief that there are 'absolutes' in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be 'absolutes.' \"<br> --  Justice Hugo Black, The Bill of Rights, 35 NYU L.R. 865, 1970</b>"; 
quote[728]="<b>\"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.\"<br> -- Charles A. Beard, American Historian, (1874-1948)1935</b>"; 
quote[729]="<b>\"They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.\"<br> --  Benjamin Franklin</b>"; 
quote[730]="<b>\"The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.\"<br> --  Miller v US, 230 F 2d 486, 489</b>"; 
quote[731]="<b>\"In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.\"<br> --  Steve Symms, US Senator from Idaho, 1990</b>"; 
quote[732]="<b>\"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.\"<br> --  Dolores Ibarruri `La Pasionaria'</b>"; 
quote[733]="<b>\"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.\"<br> --  Robert H. Jackson, US Judge (1892-1954)</b>"; 
quote[734]="<b>\"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.\"<br> --  Thomas Jefferson</b>"; 
quote[735]="<b>\"The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense; and (3) preservation of individual liberty...\"<br> --  Don Kates, Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment, 1983</b>"; 
quote[736]="<b>\"The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.\"<br> --  Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session, Feb 1982</b>"; 
quote[737]="<b>\"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms.&nbsp; The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.\"<br> --  Thomas Jefferson</b>"; 
quote[738]="<b>\"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people.&nbsp; The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.&nbsp; He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms.&nbsp; But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.\"<br> --  James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Inquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses, 1774-1775</b>"; 
quote[739]="<b>\"Before a standing army can rule the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.&nbsp; 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 band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.\"<br> -- Noah Webster, An Examination of The Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, Philadelphia, 1787<br>Reference: Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, Ford (29)</b><br><br>http://patriotpost.us/historic/quotes/";
quote[740]="<b>\"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?&nbsp; Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Smith, Paris, November 13, 1787</b>"; 
quote[741]="<b>\"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction.&nbsp; The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature.&nbsp; They disarm those only who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.&nbsp; Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty-so dear to men, so dear to the enlightened legislator-and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the quality alone ought to suffer?&nbsp; 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 unarmed man.&nbsp; They ought to be designated as laws not preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson 1819, Jefferson's \"Commonplace Book,\" 1774-1776,<br>quoting from \"On Crimes and Punishment\", p.145, by the 18th century criminologist, Cesare Beccaria, originally published in 1764</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[742]="<b>\"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power.&nbsp; The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.&nbsp; There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern.&nbsp; They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson?, ( -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator Representative and Senator from New Hampshire, U.S. Secretary of State)</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[743]="<b>\"Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense.\"<br> -- John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787-88</b>"; 
quote[744]="<b>\"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759</b>"; 
quote[745]="<b>\"A free people ought . . . to be armed . . .\"<br> -- George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790, printed in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790</b>";
quote[746]="<b>\"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.&nbsp; Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.&nbsp; Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force.&nbsp; Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.&nbsp; The great object is that every man be armed.&nbsp; Everyone who is able may have a gun.\"<br> -- Patrick Henry, spoken during Virginia's ratification convention, June 14, 1788</b>";
quote[747]="<b>\"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?&nbsp; Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress?&nbsp; 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?\"<br> -- Patrick Henry, (source unknown)</b>"; 
quote[748]="<b>\"if the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no recourse left but the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramont [paramount] to all forms of positive government.\"<br> -- Alexander Hamilton, writing in The Federalist Paper No. 28</b>"; 
quote[749]="<b>\"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large, is that they be properly armed.\" Alexander Hamilton<br>-- The Federalist Papers , 184-8</b>"; 
quote[750]="<b>\"...if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.&nbsp; This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.\"<br> -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers No. 29</b>"; 
quote[751]="<b>\"James Madison, in The Federalist No. 46, confidently contrasted the federal government of the United States to the European despotisms which he contemptuously described as \"afraid to trust the people with arms.\" He assured his fellow citizens that they need never fear their government because of \"the advantage of being armed.\" (The actual quote is: \"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.\")</b>"; 
quote[752]="<b>\"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.\"<br> -- James Madison, Virginia Convention speech, June 16, 1788<br>Many years later, James Madison stated that \"[A] government resting on a 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.</b>";
quote[753]="<b>\"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.\"<br> -- James Madison's version of what would later be the Second Amendment</b>"; 
quote[754]="<b>\"(The Constitution should be) never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless when necessary for the defence of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of their grievances: or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams, U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788; as reported in \"Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer\", August 20, 1789</b>"; 
quote[755]="<b>\"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purpose without resistance is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms...\"<br> -- Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice</b>"; 
quote[756]="<b>\"In his influential Commentaries on the Constitution, Joseph Story emphasized the importance of the Second Amendment.&nbsp; He described the militia as the \"natural defence of a free country\" not only \"against sudden foreign invasions\" and \"domestic insurrections,\" but also against \"domestic usurpations of power by rulers.\" He went on to state that \"[t]he right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.\"</b>"; 
quote[757]="<b>\"Whenever, therefore, the profession of arms becomes a distinct order in the state ... the end of the social compact is defeated.&nbsp; No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and the soldier in those destined for the defence of the state . . . . Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.\"<br> -- Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress,  State Gazette (Charleston), September 8, 1788</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[758]="<b>\"A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms.&nbsp; 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; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion.&nbsp;  The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.\"<br> -- Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer 53 (1788) at 169<br>(Signed Declaration of Independence, introduced resolution in Continental Congress to become independent, proposed Bill of Rights from beginning, author of <U>Anti-Fed Papers</U>, Congressman and Senator from Virginia)</b>";
quote[759]="<b>\"At Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention in 1788, George Mason argued the importance of the militia and right to bear arms by reminding his compatriots of England's efforts \"to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them . . . by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.\"&nbsp; On June 1, 1788, he also clarified that under prevailing practice the militia included all people, rich and poor.&nbsp; \"Who are the militia?&nbsp; They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.\"&nbsp; Mason is generally acknowledged to be the author of the Second Amendment.<br> -- George Mason (Virginia House of Burgesses, Virginia delegate to Constitutional Convention,<br>wrote Virginia Declaration of Rights, wrote \"Objections to the Constitution\", urged creation of a Bill of Rights)<br>(Jonathan Elliot, The Debates of the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, [NY: Burt Franklin,1888] p.425-6)</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[760]="<b>\"Writing after the ratification of the Constitution, but before the election of the first Congress, James Monroe included \"the right to keep and bear arms\" in a list of basic \"human rights\" which he proposed to be added to the Constitution.</b>"; 
quote[761]="<b>\"Zachariah Johnson told the Virginia convention their liberties would be safe because \"The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.&nbsp; They are left in full possession of them.&nbsp; The government is administered by the representatives of the people, voluntarily and freely chosen.&nbsp; Under these circumstances should anyone attempt to establish their own system [of religion], in prejudice of the rest, they would be universally detested and opposed, and easily frustrated.&nbsp; This is the principle which secures religious liberty most firmly.&nbsp; The government will depend on the assistance of the people in the day of distress.\"<br> -- 3 Elliot, Debates at 646</b>"; 
quote[762]="<b>\"Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia.&nbsp; Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American...The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.\"<br> -- Tench Coxe, writing as \"the Pennsylvanian\" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, 1788</b>"; 
quote[763]="<b>\"...[A]rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property ... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.\"<br> -- Thomas Paine, Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[764]="<b>\"What, sir, is the use of a militia?&nbsp; It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.&nbsp;  Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise a standing army upon its ruins.\"<br> -- Representative Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, Debate, U.S. House of Representatives, August 17, 1789;  Annals of Congress, I:750</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[765]="<b>\"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people.&nbsp; The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.&nbsp; He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms.&nbsp; But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.\"<br> -- Andrew Fletcher (1655-1716), quoted by James Burgh (1714-1775), Political Disquisitions: Or, an Inquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses, 1774-1775</b>"; 
quote[766]="<b>\"The right of citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.\"<br> -- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries On The Constitution, 1883</b>"; 
quote[767]="<b>\"The right of the people to bear arms in their own defence, and to form and drill military organizations in defence of the State, may not be very important in this country, but it is significant as having been reserved by the people as a possible and necessary resort for the protection of self-government against usurpation, and against any attempt on the part of those who may for the time be in possession of State authority or resources to set aside the constitution and substitute their own rule for that of the people.\"<br> -- 19th Century Judge Thomas M. Cooley, The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America</b>"; 
quote[768]="<b>\"The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on.&nbsp; We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power.&nbsp; Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world...&nbsp; The first step -- in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come -- is to teach men to shoot!\"<br> -- President Theodore Roosevelt's last message to Congress</b>"; 
quote[769]="<b>\"In the event of central tyranny, state governments could do what colonial governments had done in 1776: organize and mobilize their Citizens into an effective fighting force capable of beating even a large standing army.\"<br> -- Constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights as a Constitution, Yale Law Journal, 1991 (Amar then goes on to quote Madison's Federalist No. 46 writings as one example).</b>"; 
quote[770]="<b>\"The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.\"<br> -- Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session, Feb 1982</b>"; 
quote[771]="<b>\"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.\"<br> -- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minnesota)</b>"; 
quote[772]="<b>\"Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons.&nbsp; A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.\"<br> -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903–1950), \"You and the Atom Bomb\", 1945</b>"; 
quote[773]="<b>\"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.\"<br> -- Mahatma Ghandi</b>"; 
quote[774]="<b>\"By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia', the 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms', our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy.&nbsp; Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country.&nbsp; For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.\"<br> -- Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. 1960</b>"; 
quote[775]="<b>\"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.\"<br> -- Lyndon Johnson</b>"; 
quote[776]="<b>\"Sure we'll have fascism in America, but it'll come disguised as Americanism.\"<br> -- Huey Long</b>"; 
quote[777]="<b>\"If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type legislation should have no difficulties drawing upon long lists of crime rates reduced by such legislation.&nbsp; That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying--that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.\"<br> -- Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution</b>"; 
quote[778]="<b>\"Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide.&nbsp; Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage.&nbsp; Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered one does not usually lead to the other it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.\"<br> -- Daniel D. Polsby, Washington University Law Quarterly, Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1997</b>"; 
quote[779]="<b>\"When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government.&nbsp; The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million).&nbsp; The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists.&nbsp; Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.\"<br> -- Walter E. Willaims, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, in a commentary for the April 2001 issue of America's First Freedom.</b>"; 

quote[780]="<b>\"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.&nbsp; Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them, 'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'!\" - L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach</b>"; 
quote[781]="<b>\"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction.&nbsp; Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.\"<br> -- Colin Greenwood in the study Firearms Control, 1972</b>"; 
quote[782]="<b>\"...The authors take Dodge City in 1871, as the archetype of lawlessness in American history.&nbsp; Yet its murder rate was only half that of the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., in 1990, a rate of 80 per 100,000 annually, meaning that your chances of being murdered over a lifetime in the city are about 1 in 16.&nbsp; Indeed, among children under 12, murder is now the leading cause of death in Washington.\"<br> -- National Review Nov, 4 1991, Paul Johnson's review of the book by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg, The Great Reckoning: How the World Will Change in the Depression of the 1990's</b>"; 
quote[783]="<b>\"..and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.\"<br> -- Jesus Christ, Luke 22:36 NKJV</b>"; 
quote[784]="<b>\"One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose without resistance is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms.\"<br> -- Aristotle, The Politics 218, Thomas A. Sinclair translation, Penguin Books, 1962</b>"; 
quote[785]="<b>\"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.\"<br> -- Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)</b>"; 
quote[786]="<b>\"Those that beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those that don't.\"<br> ~~ Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[787]="<b>\"(The 2nd Amendment) does not say 'shall not be infringed, unless the weapon in question is really scary.'&nbsp; They're SUPPOSED to be scary.&nbsp; The occupants of Washington City are supposed to go to bed every night, wondering if anything they've done today will get them what it got Charles the First in 1649, or Louis XVI in 1793.\"<br> -- Vin Suprynowicz, JFPO web site</b>";
quote[788]="<b>\"The society of late twentieth century America is perhaps the first in human history where most grown men do not routinely bear arms on their persons and boys are not regularly raised from childhood to learn skill in the use of some kind of weapon, either for community or personal defense - club or spear, broadsword or long bow, rifle or Bowie knife.&nbsp; It also happens to be one of the rudest and crudest societies in history, having jubilantly swept most of the etiquette of speech, table, dress, hospitality, fairness, deference to authority and the relations of male and female and child and elder under the fraying and filthy carpet of politically convenient illusions.&nbsp; With little fear of physical reprisal Americans can be as loud, gross, disrespectful, pushy, and negligent as they please.&nbsp; If more people carried rapiers at their belts, or revolvers on their hips, it is a fair bet you would be able to go to a movie and enjoy the dialogue from the screen without having to endure the small talk, family gossip and assorted bodily noises that many theater audiences these days regularly emit.&nbsp; Today, discourtesy is commonplace precisely because there is no price to pay for it.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis\" target=\"_new\">Samuel Todd \"Sam\" Francis</a> (April 29, 1947 – February 15, 2005),<br>source: <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_(magazine)\" target=\"_new\"><i>Chronicles<b>:</b> A Magazine of American Culture</i></b>"; 
quote[789]="<b>\"In its unanimous decision Friday, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals likened the city suit against gun makers to the 'absurdity' of suing the makers of matches because of losses from arson.\"<br> -- Newspaper account of the dismissal of a frivolous lawsuit against a gun manufacturer.</b>"; 
quote[790]="<b>\"Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater.\"<br> -- Peter Venetoklis</b>"; 
quote[791]="<b>\"Gun Control?&nbsp; It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters.&nbsp; I want you to have nothing.&nbsp; If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun.&nbsp; Safety locks?&nbsp; You pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger.&nbsp; We'll see who wins.\"<br> -- Sammy \"The Bull\" Gravano, Vanity Fair, 9/99 page 165</b>"; 
quote[792]="<b>\"A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.\"<br> -- Ruling of federal district judge Sam R. Cummings, in U.S. v. Emerson, 2000</b>"; 
quote[793]="<b>\"The Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.\"<br> -- Majority Supreme Court opinion in U.S. vs. Miller, 1939</b>"; 
quote[794]="<b>\"Other decisions by U.S. Courts of Appeals recognizing that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right include the First.\" (Cases v. U.S., 1942), Fifth (U.S. v. Bowdach, 1977), Eighth (U.S. v. Hutzell, 2000), Tenth (U.S. vs. Swinton, 1975), and 11th Circuits (Gilbert Equipment Co., Inc. v. Higgins, 1990).&nbsp;  Also, the U.S. Supreme Court recently recognized the Second Amendment as an important individual right in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 112 S.Ct. 2791, 2805, 120 L.Ed.2d 674, 696 (1992) and U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez, 494 U.S. 259, 265 (1991).</b>"; 
quote[795]="<b>\"In \"Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control\", (Walter de Gruyter, Inc., New York, 1997), Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck analyzed data from the Department of Justice (1979-1985 National Crime Survey public use computer tapes).&nbsp; He found victims that defended themselves with a gun against a robbery or an assault, had the least chance of being injured, or of having the crime completed.&nbsp; Doing nothing, trying to escape, reasoning with the offender, or physical resistance (other than with a gun), all had higher probabilities of injury and crime completion.&nbsp; Using more recent data, Lawrence Southwick Jr. found that \"victims using guns were consistently less likely to lose cash or other property than other victims, and also establishing that this was true regardless of what weaponry was possessed or used by the offenders.\" Another study also \"found that burglaries in which victims resisted with guns were far less likely to be completed.\"</b>"; 
quote[796]="<b>\"Victims were less likely to report being injured than those who either defended themselves by other means or took no self-protective measures at all.&nbsp; Thus, while 33 percent of all surviving robbery victims were injured, only 25 percent of those who offered no resistance and 17 percent of those who defended themselves with guns were injured.&nbsp; For surviving assault victims, the corresponding injury rates were, respectively, 30 percent, 27 percent, and 12 percent.\"<br> -- National Institute of Justice publication, Firearms and Violence</b>";
quote[797]="<b>\"The frequency with which gun owners accidently shoot a family member in the course of defensive gun use is less than 2 percent .&nbsp; The number of gun defenders who lost a gun to the criminal is less than 1 percent.\"<br> -- Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, Walter de Gruyter, Inc., New York, 1997.</b>"; 
quote[798]="<b>\"If defensive gun use is common then many criminals should certainly have encountered armed resistance.\"&nbsp; Professors James D. Wright and Peter Rossi surveyed 2,000 felons incarcerated in state prisons across the United States.&nbsp; Wright and Rossi reported that 34% of the felons said they personally had been \"scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim\"; 69% said that they knew at least one other criminal who had also; 34% said that when thinking about committing a crime they either 'often' or 'regularly' worried that they \"[m]ight get shot at by the victim\"; and 57% agreed with the statement, \"Most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.\"<br> -- James D. Wright & Peter H. Rossi, Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms (1986).&nbsp; See Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda?&nbsp; by Don B. Kates, et. al. Originally published as 61 Tenn. L. Rev. 513-596 (1994).</b>"; 
quote[799]="<b>\"By comparing criminal victimization surveys from Britain and the Netherlands (countries having low levels of gun ownership) with the U.S., Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck determined that if the U.S. were to have similar rates of 'hot' burglaries (that is, burglaries occurring while the homeowner was present) as these other nations, there would be more than 450,000 additional burglaries per year where the victim was threatened or assaulted.&nbsp; (Britain and the Netherlands have a 'hot' burglary rate near 45% versus just under 13% for the U.S., and in the U.S. a victim is threatened or attacked 30% of the time during a \"hot\" burglary.)\"<br> -- Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, Walter de Gruyter, Inc., New York, 1997.</b>"; 
quote[800]="<b>\"Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime.&nbsp; Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.\"<br> -- Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Handgun Violence In America</b>"; 
quote[801]="<b>\"A Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report found that only 1.7% of federal inmates who possessed a firearm during their offense reported the gun was purchased or traded at a gun show.&nbsp; Another study, by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), supports the BJS report, indicating that less than 2% of guns used by criminals came from gun shows.\"<br> -- Institute For Legislative Action, 2/16/01</b>"; 
quote[802]="<b>\"When I began my research on guns in 1976, like most academics, I was a believer in the 'anti-gun' thesis. ... It seemed then like self-evident common sense which hardly needed to be empirically tested. ... [But] the best currently available evidence, imperfect though it is (and must always be), indicates that general gun availability has no measurable net positive effect on rates of homicide, suicide, robbery, assault, rape, or burglary in the U.S. ... Further, when victims have guns, it is less likely aggressors will attack or injure them and less likely they will lose property in a robbery. ... The positive associations often found between aggregate levels of violence and gun ownership appear to be primarily due to violence increasing gun ownership, rather than the reverse.\"<br> -- Prof. Gary Kleck, Florida State University, School of Criminology from a speech given to the Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991, as reported by Don B. Kates, Jr. in \"Shot Down\", National Review, March 6, 1995, pages 49-54.</b>"; 
quote[803]="<b>\"OCTOBER 20, 2000<br>-- Data released last week by the FBI shows that gunshot wounds inflicted during crimes dropped to 39,400 from 64,100 nationwide between 1992 and 1997 -- a decrease of 40%.&nbsp; But during the same five years, the number of guns in America surged to 230 million from 205 million, according to the National Association of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers.\"<br> -- Libertarian Party web site</b>"; 
quote[804]="<b>\"There are more than 20,000 gun laws currently on the books.\"<br> -- Libertarian Party web site</b>"; 
quote[805]="<b>\"A mid-1990's Gallop Poll and the National Institute of Justice reported that Americans owned 192 million guns -- 70 million rifles, 65 million handguns, 49 million shotguns and 8 million other long guns.&nbsp; Almost 6 million households with children have guns.\"<br> -- America's First Freedom, July 2001 P. 16</b>"; 
quote[806]="<b>\"Since 1994, 1,597 of the 130,000 police officers in \"gun free\" South Africa have been killed in the line of duty.&nbsp; By contrast, New York City lost 3 of its 41,000 officers last year, all due to car accidents.\"<br> -- America's First Freedom, July 2001, P.26</b>"; 
quote[807]="<b>\"On the whole, citizens are more successful gun users than are the police.&nbsp; When police shoot, they are 5.5 times more likely to hit an innocent person than are civilian shooters.\"<br> -- David Kopel, Trust The People: The Case Against Gun Control, CATO Institute Policy Analysis No. 109</b>"; 
quote[808]="<b>\"Liberalizing concealed carry laws won't lead to a return to the Wild West - though it wouldn't be bad if it did. ... in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances.&nbsp; The per capita robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City's.&nbsp; The burglary rate was 1%.&nbsp; Rape was unknown.\"<br> -- David Kopel, \"Have Gun, Will Eat Out\", Wall Street Journal, 28 Feb 1994</b>"; 
quote[809]="<b>\"Physicians and public-health researchers tend to be quite knowledgeable about medicine and public health.&nbsp; Unfortunately, some of them get the idea that they are also experts in other areas -- like nuclear war, or gun violence.&nbsp; Thus, in the 1980s, the group Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) promoted unilateral American nuclear disarmament as the proper scientific response to nuclear danger.&nbsp; Philosophical pacifism was masquerading as science.&nbsp; PSR's Dr. Helen Caldicott predicted in 1984 that nuclear war with the USSR was a mathematical certainty if Ronald Reagan were re-elected.\"<br> -- Dave Kopel, National Review Online, Feb. 27, 2001</b>"; 
quote[810]="<b>\"The maintenance of civil order and social democracy is in our hands.&nbsp; It has been there all along.&nbsp; In a nationwide study, Don Kates at the St. Louis University School of Law found that police succeed in wounding or driving off criminals only 81% as often as armed citizens and are 15% more likely to be wounded or killed themselves.&nbsp; More than FIVE TIMES as many cops shoot some innocent individual in the process as civilians do.\"<br> -- L. Neil Smith, The Atrocity Engineers</b>"; 
quote[811]="<b>\"On Monday, a 15-year-old boy opened fire on his classmates in Santee, California, killing two and injuring 13 others at the Santana High School.&nbsp; The suspect, Charles Andrew Williams, was described as a \"scrawny\" kid who had been picked on by bullies.&nbsp; Over the previous weekend, he had joked about shooting up his school.&nbsp; The story made the front page of almost every major American newspaper, was the lead item on the nightly network news, and is generating around-the-clock discussion on cable TV networks.&nbsp; The crime also prompted new demands to restrict or outlaw guns.&nbsp; Meanwhile, on February 26, a 19-year-old student at the University of California at Santa Barbara plowed his car -- traveling at 60 miles an hour -- into a crowd of college students in Isla Vista, killing four and critically injuring one.&nbsp; The suspect, David Attias, shouted, \"I'm the angel of death!\" as he was taken away from the scene.&nbsp; He was described by fellow students as troubled, and was known in his dormitory as \"Crazy Dave.\" That story was relegated to the inside of most newspapers, and generated scant attention on network or cable news shows.&nbsp; The crime prompted no demands to restrict or outlaw automobiles.\"<br> -- Libertarian Party press release, March 8, 2001</b>"; 
quote[812]="<b>\"School shootings have declined throughout the 1990s, to the point at which a child now has less than a one-in-2-million chance of being killed in school.&nbsp; Today a student is more likely to be killed by lightning than in a school homicide.&nbsp; And it is not just school shootings that have declined: According to the Centers for Disease Control and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, fights, gun possession and overall school crime are down, too.\"...\"Though crime dropped 20 percent nationally from 1990 to 1998, (TV) network coverage of crime increased 83 percent during that period, according to a recent study prepared by the Berkeley Media Studies Group and the Justice Policy Institute.\"<br> -- New America Foundation fellow James Foreman, Jr., The Washington Post, April 23, 2001, page A15</b>"; 
quote[813]="<b>\"Research has shown that every year, more than 2.4 million people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals.&nbsp; Of these, more than 192,000 are women defending themselves against sexual assaults.&nbsp; Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.\"<br> -- America's First Freedom, April 2001, page 24 </b>";
quote[814]="<b>\"Although 80 million Americans own firearms, accidental deaths involving firearms are roughly equivalent to accidental bicycle deaths.\"<br> -- William Zimsky, The Durango Herald, Feb. 11, 2001</b>"; 
quote[815]="<b>\"I use my gun the same number of times I've used my fire detector, my smoke detector, my fire insurance, my earthquake insurance.&nbsp; Which is to say, never.&nbsp; And always.\"<br> -- Clarence Martinelli, 70-year-old school crossing guard and racial unity activist, as told to the Los Angeles Times.</b>"; 
quote[816]="<b>\"Cigarette lighters cause more fatal accidents for children than do guns.&nbsp; In 1984, the number of accidental deaths from all types of guns for children under the age of 5 was 34, while that same year 90 children aged 0-4 were killed by cigarette lighters.\"<br> -- Centers for Disease Control, Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report, March 11, 1988, p. 145; Consumer's Research, May 1988, p. 34.</b>"; 
quote[817]="<b>\"Gun-control means hitting the target.&nbsp; Crime-control means identifying, arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning (or, when appropriate executing) [criminals] with due process of law.\"<br> -- Tom Clancy, quoted on the Usenet discussion group alt.books.tom-clancy</b>"; 
quote[818]="<b>\"Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.&nbsp; The same situation exists in Israel, whose armed forces are similar to the Swiss model: Many citizens keep their military weapons--the well known Uzi submachine gun, for example--in their coat closets.\"<br> -- Tom Clancy</b>"; 
quote[819]="<b>\"The world is filled with violence.&nbsp; Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns.&nbsp; Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.\"<br> -- James Earl Jones</b>"; 
quote[820]="<b>\"At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time?&nbsp; Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?&nbsp; At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain.&nbsp; Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms?&nbsp; What kind of mentality does that?\"<br> -- Clint Eastwood in Parade Magazine, January 12, 1997</b>"; 
quote[821]="<b>\"I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco...\"<br> -- P. J. O'Rourke</b>"; 
quote[822]="<b>\"The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship.&nbsp; The rifle is the weapon of democracy... If guns are outlawed, only the government [and criminals - rfh] will have guns.&nbsp; Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers.&nbsp; Only the government - and a few outlaws.&nbsp; I intend to be among the outlaws.\"<br> -- Edward Abbey</b>"; 
quote[823]="<b>\"Our analyses provide no evidence that implementation of the Brady Act was associated with a reduction in homicide rates.&nbsp; In particular, we find no differences in homicide or firearm homicide rates to adult victims in the 32 treatment states directly subject to the Brady Act provisions compared with the remaining control states.\"<br> -- Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 284 No. 5, August 2, 2000)</b>"; 
quote[824]="<b>\"To this day, it is 1999, isn't the male primarily responsible for the physical defense of the American home?&nbsp; If you hear a creak on the floor downstairs in the middle of the night, the woman never says, 'Let me check.'&nbsp;  You have to check.&nbsp; And you're supposed to go downstairs and confront whoever's down there with Plan B, whatever it happens to be, 'My good man, please give me that firearm and leave the premises'?&nbsp; I mean, give me a break!&nbsp; The reason men are more pro-gun is because they are responsible for the physical protection of the American home.\"<br> -- Chris Matthews, host of CNBC's Hardball</b>"; 
quote[825]="<b>\"St. Gabriel Possenti, the patron saint of handguns: Canonized by the Vatican in 1920, Gabriel Possenti was an otherwise humble seminarian who brandished two handguns to save the Italian town of Isola from brigands.\"</b>"; 
quote[826]="<b>\"He who goes unarmed in paradise had better be sure that that is where he is.\"<br> -- James Thurber</b>"; 
quote[827]="<b>\"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.\"<br> -- Sigmond Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis</b>"; 
quote[828]="<b>\"Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving.\"<br> -- Bill McIntire, Spokesman for the National Rifle Association</b>"; 
quote[829]="<b>\"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.&nbsp; Let's start with typewriters.\"<br> -- Solomon Short</b>"; 
quote[830]="<b>\"We learn from Soldier of Fortune magazine that when Senator Arlen Specter issued a request last summer for the names of all known militia members at least one citizen did what he could do to help.&nbsp; He sent Specter a copy of the local phone book.&nbsp; According to the Founding Fathers, almost everybody not in the military is in the militia.\"<br> -- Jeff Cooper</b>"; 
quote[831]="<b>\"A gun is no more responsible for killing people than a spoon is responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.\"<br> -- Travis McGee</b>"; 
quote[832]="<b>\"The philosophy of gun control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90 MPH, where the speed limit is 25.&nbsp; Your solution is to lower the speed limit to 20.\"<br> -- Sam Cohen</b>";
quote[833]="<b>\"Last but not least, I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns.&nbsp; The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves.&nbsp; Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun.&nbsp; It is constitutionally legal to own a shogun or a rifle.\" Malcolm X, April 3. 1964.&nbsp; (Source: \"The Ballot or the Bullet,\" reprinted in Irving J. Rein, ed., *The Relevant Rhetoric* (New York: The Free Press, 1969, 67-68.&nbsp; Originally published in *Malcolm X Speaks* ((New York: Merit Publishers, 1965)</b>";
quote[834]="<b>\"The lesson this [a successful example of resistance to lynchers] teaches and which every African American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.\" Civil rights leader Ida B. Wells.<br>Source: Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases (New York, 1892), 22-23.</b>"; 
quote[835]="<b>\"The Second Amendment ain't about f*****g duck hunting.\"<br> -- Raider, State President, Minnesota VNVMC</b>"; 
quote[836]="<b>\"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.\"<br> -- George Washington</b>";
quote[837]="<b>\"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</b>"; 
quote[838]="<b>\"I'll tell you what war is all about, you've got to kill people.&nbsp;  And, when you've killed enough they stop fighting.\"<br> -- General Curtis LeMay, (USAF, SAC)</b>"; 
quote[839]="<b>\"..the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state...\"<br> --Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights, 1776</b>"; 
quote[840]="<b>\"I have nothing against Islam because it educates the men in this division for me and promises them heaven if they fight and are killed in action.&nbsp; A very practical and attractive religion for soldiers.\"<br> ~~ Reichesführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (Schutzstaffel <img src=\"http://www.harrold.org/rfhextra/images/swastika.gif\" height=\"15\" width=\"15\" alt=\"small image of a Nazi swastika\" border=\"0\"> SS)</b>";
quote[841]="<b>\"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices<b>:</b> take it or leave it.\"<br> -- Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor<br><br>(born<b>:</b> Leonard Hacker 31Aug1924-30Jun2003)</b>";
quote[842]="<b>\" 'Tis done.&nbsp;  We have become a nation.\"<br> -- Benjamin Rush<br>(on the ratification of the Constitution, letter to Boudinot, 9 July 1788)</b>";
quote[843]="<b>\"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.\"<br> -- Thomas Mann</b>";
quote[844]="<b>\"An armed man is a citizen.&nbsp;  An unarmed man is a subject.\"";
quote[845]="<b>\"Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.\"";
quote[846]="<b>\"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.\"";
quote[847]="<b>\"If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.\"";
quote[848]="<b>\"Those who trade liberty for security have neither.\"";
quote[849]="<b>\"The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.\"";
quote[850]="<b>\"Know guns, know peace, know safety.&nbsp;  No guns, no peace, no safety.\"";
quote[851]="<b>\"Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.\"";
quote[852]="<b>\"Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.\"";
quote[853]="<b>\"You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.\"";
quote[854]="<b>\"When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.\"";
quote[855]="<b>\"The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.\"";
quote[856]="<b>\"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.\"<br> -- Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446";
quote[857]="<b>\"If, by the instrument of governmental power, a race is led to its destruction, then rebellion is not only the right of every member of such people - it is his duty.\"<br> -- Adolf Hitler";
quote[858]="<b>\"A hand on a gun is better than a cop on the phone,\"<br> -- Jerry Ellis, Oklahoma State House of Representatives.</b><br><br>note: Does not apply to California, District of Columbia, New York or New Jersey";
quote[859]="<b>\"65 years ago Norman Thomas knew what was going to happen to our country in 2008!<br><br>Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884-December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.<br><br>The Socialist Party candidate for President of the US, Norman Thomas, said this in a 1944 speech:<br><br>\"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.&nbsp; But, under the name of \"liberalism,\" they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.\" He went on to say: \"I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party.&nbsp; The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.\"</b>";
quote[860]="<b>\"Think what you do when you run into debt; you give to another power over your liberty.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin.</b>";
quote[861]="<b>CONGRESSIONAL OATH OF OFFICE:<br>\"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion: and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.&nbsp; So help me, God.\"</b>";
quote[862]="<b>\"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[863]="<b>\"You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife until she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on a shanty of a consul in a foreign town.\"<br> -- O. Henry (1862-1919)</b>";
quote[864]="<b>\"Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.\"<br> -- Oliver Wendell Holmes in \"Old Ironsides\"</b>";
quote[865]="<b>\"Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.\"<br> -- George M. Cohan</b>";
quote[866]="<b>\"A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it.\"<br> -- The United States Supreme Court.</b>";
quote[867]="<b>\"'Twas red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fit in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.\"<br> -- Julia Ward Howe in \"The Flag\"</b>";
quote[868]="<b>\"The emblem of equal rights.&nbsp; It means free hands, free lips, self-government, and the sovereignty of the individual.\"<br> -- Robert Ingersoll</b>"; 
quote[869]="<b>\"Our flag is our national ensign, pure and simple, behold it! Listen to it! Every star has a tongue, every stripe is articulate.\"<br> -- Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), Senator from Massachusetts</b>";
quote[870]="<b>\"Patriotism means to stand by the country.&nbsp; It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public office save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.\"<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt</b>";
quote[871]="<b>\"This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties.&nbsp; A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin</b>";
quote[872]="<b>\"The Constitution evidently contemplated no taxes as direct taxes, but only as Congress could lay in proportion to the census.\"<br> -- U.S. Supreme Court ; Hylton v. United States (1796)</b>";
quote[873]="<b>\"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.\"<br> -- Daniel Webster</b>";
quote[874]="<b>\"A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</b>"; 
quote[875]="<b>\"The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself.\"<br> -- John Adams</b>"; 
quote[876]="<b>\"If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.&nbsp; The right to freedom being the gift of god, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams, a Father of the American Revolution</b>";
quote[877]="<b>\"The tax power has been used by the national government as a weapon to take over, one by one, subjects traditionally within the orbit of state police power.\"<br> -- Chief Justice Taft</b>";
quote[878]="<b>\"Let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[879]="<b>\"Income,\" as used in the statute should be given the meaning so as not to include everything that comes in.&nbsp; The true function of the words \"gain\" and \"profit\" is to limit the meaning of the word income.\"<br> -- So. Pacific v. Lower, 238 F 847</b>";
quote[880]="<b>\"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; 'thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams , 'Rights of the Colonists,' Nov. 1772</b>";
quote[881]="<b>\"No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.\"<br> -- Sixteenth American Jurisprudence Second Edition, Section 177</b>";
quote[882]="<b>Income Tax:<br>\"A tax on the yearly profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices.\<br> -- Black's Law Dictionary Second Edition, 1891</b>";
quote[883]="<b>\"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty's Teeth.\"<br> -- George Washington</b>";
quote[884]="<b>\"The legal right of the taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes or all together avoid them by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.\" -- Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465</b>";
quote[885]="<b>\"We shall cause the United States to spend itself to destruction.\" -- V. I. Lenin</b><br><br><small>[Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин) (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ульянов) and commonly known by the names V.I. Lenin or simply Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik communist politician, principal leader of the October Revolution and the first head of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, better known as the Soviet Union.&nbsp;  <i>source:</i> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin</small>";
quote[886]="<b>\"I have now disposed of all my property to my family; there is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.&nbsp; If they have that, and I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich; and if they have not this, and I had given them all this world, they would be poor.\"<br> -- Patrick Henry in his will</b>";
quote[887]="<b>\"The best yardstick of the effectiveness of the fight against Communism is the fury of the smear attacks against the fighter.\" -- J.&nbsp; Edgar Hoover</b>";
quote[888]="<b>\"This nation can never be conquered from without.&nbsp; If it is ever to fall it will be from within.\" -- President Abraham Lincoln</b>";
quote[889]="<b>\"Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.&nbsp; This is the sum of good government.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural Address</b>";
quote[890]="<b>\"As usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.\"<br> -- John Locke, \"Of Civil Government\" 1689</b>";
quote[891]="<b>\"The common curse of mankind - folly and ignorance.\"<br> -- Shakespeare</b>";
quote[892]="<b>\"An Unconstitutional Act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.\"<br> -- U.S. Supreme Court Norton V. Shelby County 118 U.S. 425, 442</b>";
quote[893]="<b>\"One of the main purposes for the control and power of the Establishment media is to keep the masses deceived and ignorant about their rights and oppressions of their rights.\" -- Charles Weisman</b>";
quote[894]="<b>\"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.\" -- Albert Einstein</b>";
quote[895]="<b>\"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.... The issuing powers should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[896]="<b>\"Taxation is the art of plucking the goose, so as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.\"<br> -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Finance under Louis XIV</b>";
quote[897]="<b>\"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.\" -- U.S. Supreme Court Marbury v. Madison, 2Cranch 5 U.S. (1803)</b>";
quote[898]="<b>\"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.\"<br> -- James Madison</b>";
quote[899]="<b>\"All socialism involves slavery.\"<br> -- Herbert Spencer</b>";
quote[900]="<b>\"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address</b>";
quote[901]="<b>\"We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin</b>";
quote[902]="<b>\"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.\"<br> -- Chief Justice John Marshall</b>";
quote[903]="<b>\"All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.\"<br> -- Jonathan Swift</b>";
quote[904]="<b>\"The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.\"<br> -- Adam Smith, \"The Wealth of Nations\"</b>";
quote[905]="<b>Property:<br>\"Rightful dominion over external objects; ownership; the unrestricted and exclusive right to a thing; Property is the highest right a man can have to anything.\"<br> -- Black's Law Dictionary, Second Edition, 1891</b>";
quote[906]="<b>\"The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood: The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty!&nbsp; Are you free?\"<br> -- Andrew Ford</b>";
quote[907]="<b>\"If the price I must pay for my freedom is to acknowledge that the government was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free.\"<br> -- Pol Anderson</b>";
quote[908]="<b>\"The great object is that everyman be armed.&nbsp; Everyone who is able may have a gun.\"<br -- Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution</b>";
quote[909]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Our task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.\"<br> -- Sarah Brady</b>";
quote[910]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns.\"<br> -- Senator Howard Metzenbaum</b>";
quote[911]="<b>\"[A] string of amendments were presented to the lower House; these altogether respected personal liberty.\"<br> -- Senator William Grayson of Virginia in the first Congress under the United States Constitution,  Letter to Patrick Henry, June 12, 1789,<br>referring to the introduction of what became the Bill of Rights</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[912]="<b>\"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.&nbsp; They want rain without thunder and lightning, they want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.&nbsp; This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it be a struggle.&nbsp; Power concedes nothing without a demand... It never did... and it never will... Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.&nbsp; The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.\"<br> -- Frederick Douglas (1857)</b>";
quote[913]="<b>\"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[914]="<b>\"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams</b>";
quote[915]="<b>\"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.\"<br> -- Johann W. Von Goethe</b>";
quote[916]="<b>\"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[917]="<b>\"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>"; 
quote[918]="<b>\"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.&nbsp; A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>"; 
quote[919]="<b>\"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.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";   
quote[920]="<b>\"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[921]="<b>\"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[922]="<b>\"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.&nbsp; If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, 1802 (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[923]="<b>&quot;The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.&nbsp; History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.&quot;<br><i><b> -- Adolph Hitler</b>, Hitler's Secret Conversations 403 (Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens trans., 1961)</i></b>";
quote[924]="<b>&quot;I ask, sir, what is the militia?&nbsp; It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.&quot;<br><strong><em>&#8212; George Mason</em></strong><em>, in Debates in Virginia Convention on Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788</em></b>";
quote[925]="<b>&quot;Whereas civil-rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.&quot;<br><i><font face=\"Script MT Bold\"><b> -- Tench Coxe,</b></font></i> <i>in Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution</i></b>";
quote[926]="<b>&quot;The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.&quot;<br><i><font face=\"Script MT Bold\"><b> -- Alexander Hamilton</b></font><b>, </b>The Federalist Papers at 184-188</i></b>";
quote[927]="<b>If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State.&nbsp; In a single State, if the persons entrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense.&nbsp; The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.\"<br><b> -- <i>Alexander Hamilton,</i></b> <i>Federalist No. 28</i></b>";
quote[928]="<b>&quot;That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... &quot;<br><i><font face=\"Script MT Bold\"><b> -- Samuel Adams</b></font><b>,</b> Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce &amp; Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)</i></b>";
quote[929]="<b>&quot;[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.&quot;<br><i><b>--James Madison, </b>The Federalist Papers, No. 46</i></b>";
quote[930]="<b> &quot;To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government.&nbsp; The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.&quot;<br><i><b>--John Adams, 1788</b>  (1787-1788)<br>(Signed Declaration of Independence, Continental Congress delegate, 1st Vice President, 2nd President)<br>(A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America, John Adams, 1786, p.471)</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[931]="<b>&quot;Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.&nbsp; 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 band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.&nbsp; A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.&quot;<br><i><b>--Noah Webster, </b>An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787). </i></b>";
quote[932]="<b>&quot;Who are the militia?&nbsp; Are they not ourselves?&nbsp; Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom.&nbsp; Congress have no power to disarm the militia.&nbsp; Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.&quot;<br><b> -- Tenche Coxe,  (friend of Madison, member of Continental Congress) <i>Freeman's Journal, The Pennsylvania Gazette</i>, Feb. 20, 1788</b>";
quote[933]="<b>&quot;Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion.&nbsp; The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.&quot;<br><i><b>--Richard Henry Lee,</b> The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788. </i></b>";
quote[934]="<b>&quot;What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?&nbsp; Let them take arms.&quot; <i><br><b> -- Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, </b>1787.&nbsp; ME 6:373, Papers 12:356 </i></b>";
quote[935]="<b>&quot;No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.&quot;<br><b><i>-- Thomas Jefferson</i></b>, <i>Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334, [C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950]</i></b>";
quote[936]="<b>&quot;The right of the people to keep and bear ... arms shall not be infringed.&nbsp; A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country ...&quot;<br><b><i>-- James Madison</i></b><i>, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789</i></b>";
quote[937]="<b>&quot;What, Sir, is the use of a militia?&nbsp; It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.&quot;<br><b><i>-- Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts</i></b><i>, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789</i></b>";
quote[938]="<b>&quot; ... to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.&quot;<br><b><i>-- George Mason</i></b><i>, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380</i></b>";
quote[939]="<b>\" ... but [i]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens.\"<br> -- Alexander Hamilton,  speaking of standing armies in The Federalist, No. 29</b><br><br>src: WRH";
quote[940]="<b>&quot;Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?&nbsp; Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress?&nbsp; If our defense be the real object of them under the management of Congress?&nbsp; 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?&quot;<br><b><i>-- Patrick Henry</i></b><i>, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836</i></b>";
quote[941]="<b>&quot;The great object is, that every man be armed ... Every one who is able may have a gun.&quot;<br><i><b> -- Patrick Henry</b>, Elliot, p.3:386</i></b>";
quote[942]="<b>&quot;O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people!&nbsp; Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone ...&quot;<br><i><b> -- Patrick Henry,</b> Elliot p. 3:50-53, in Virginia Ratifying Convention demanding a guarantee of the right to bear arms</i></b>";
quote[943]="<b>&quot;The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.&nbsp; They are left in full possession of them.&quot;<br><i><b> -- Zacharia Johnson</b>, delegate to Virginia Ratifying Convention, Elliot, 3:645-6</i></b>";
quote[944]="<b>&quot;Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms ... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible.&quot;<br><i><b> -- Hubert H. Humphrey</b>, Senator, Vice President, 22 October 1959</i></b>";
quote[945]="<b>&quot;The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers.&nbsp; The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally ... enable the people to resist and triumph over them.&quot;<br> -- Joseph Story (Supreme Court Justice) (Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, p. 3:746-7, 1833)</b><br><br>src: WRH"; 
quote[946]="<b>&quot; ... most attractive to Americans, the possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave, it being the ultimate means by which freedom was to be preserved.&quot;<br><i><b> -- James Burgh</b>, 18th century English Libertarian writer, Shalhope, The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment, p.604</i></b>";
quote[947]="<b>&quot;The right [to bear arms] is general.&nbsp; It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.&nbsp; The militia, as has been explained elsewhere, consists of those persons who, under the laws, are liable to the performance of military duty, and are officered and enrolled for service when called upon.... [I]f the right were limited to those enrolled, the purpose of the guarantee might be defeated all together by the action or the neglect to act of the government it was meant to hold in check.&nbsp; The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for the purpose.&nbsp; But this enables the government to have a well regulated militia; for to bear arms implies something more than mere keeping; it implies the learning to handle and use them in a way that makes those who keep them ready for their efficient use; in other words, it implies the right to meet for voluntary discipline in arms, observing in so doing the laws of public order.&quot;<br>-<em><strong>- Thomas M. Cooley</strong></em>, General Principles of Constitutional Law, Third Edition [1898]</b>";
quote[948]="<b>&quot;And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress ... to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens,  from keeping their own arms.... &quot;<br><em><strong>--Samuel Adams</strong></em></b>";
quote[949]="<b>&quot;<a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/a_bill_concerning_slaves_quote_6570\" target=\"_new\">A Bill Concerning Slaves, quotes about Arms:</a><BR>No slaves 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.\"<br>source<b>:</b> http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/a+bill+concerning+slaves\"><font size=1 face=Arial color=#008000><i>more A Bill Concerning Slaves quotes</i></font></a></b>";
quote[950]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/samuel_adams_quote_e244\"  target=\"_new\">Samuel Adams, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Adams.Quote.E244\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/samuel+adams\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Samuel Adams quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[951]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/a_bill_concerning_slaves_quote_6570\"  target=\"_new\">A Bill Concerning Slaves, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/A.Bill.Concerning.Slaves.Quote.6570\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"No slaves 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.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/a+bill+concerning+slaves\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more A Bill Concerning Slaves quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[952]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/samuel_adams_quote_b683\"  target=\"_new\">Samuel Adams, Debates of the Massachusetts Convention of 1788, p86-87</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Adams.Quote.B683\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/samuel+adams\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Samuel Adams quotes</i></a></small></b><br>(Signed Declaration of Independence, organized the Sons of Liberty, participated in Boston Tea Party,<br>Member of Continental Congress, Governor of Massachusetts)</b><br><br>and src: WRH"; 
quote[953]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/william_blackstone_quote_5ed8\"  target=\"_new\">Sir William Blackstone, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Blackstone.Quote.5ED8\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/sir+william+blackstone\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Sir William Blackstone quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[954]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/george_bush_quote_f761\"  target=\"_new\">George W. Bush, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Bush.Quote.F761\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's], and if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him in the name of Peace.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/george+w.+bush\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more George W. Bush quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[955]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/winston_churchill_quote_1daf\"  target=\"_new\">Sir Winston Churchill, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Winston.Churchill.Quote.1DAF\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/sir+winston+churchill\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Sir Winston Churchill quotes</i></a></small></b>";  
quote[956]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/bill_clinton_quote_5e84\"  target=\"_new\">Bill Clinton, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Bill.Clinton.Quote.5E84\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/bill+clinton\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Bill Clinton quotes</i></small></a></b>"; 
quote[957]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/bill_clinton_quote_c9ad\"  target=\"_new\">Bill Clinton, quotes about Guns (False?)</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Bill.Clinton.Quote.C9AD\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"There is no reason for anyone in this country -- anyone except a police officer or military person -- to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun.&nbsp; The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns.</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/bill+clinton\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Bill Clinton quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[958]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/declaration_of_independence_quote_68bf\"  target=\"_new\">Declaration of Independence, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Declaration.of.Independence.Quote.68BF\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"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.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/declaration+of+independence\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Declaration of Independence quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[959]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/rahm_emmanuel_quote_c9ae\"  target=\"_new\">Rahm Emmanuel, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Rahm.Emmanuel.Quote.C9AE\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/rahm+emmanuel\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Rahm Emmanuel quotes</i></small></a></b>"; 
quote[960]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/don_feder_quote_4105\"  target=\"_new\">Don Feder, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Don.Feder.Quote.4105\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></a><br>\"What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/don+feder\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Don Feder quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[961]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/jim_florio_quote_c9b4\"  target=\"_new\">Jim Florio, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jim.Florio.Quote.C9B4\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/jim+florio\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Jim Florio quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[962]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/benjamin_franklin_quote_b4ef\"  target=\"_new\">Benjamin Franklin, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Franklin.Quote.B4EF\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.&nbsp; Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/benjamin+franklin\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Benjamin Franklin quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[963]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/david_friedman_quote_6517\"  target=\"_new\">David Friedman, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/David.Friedman.Quote.6517\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Suppose one little old lady in ten carries a gun.&nbsp; Suppose that one in ten of those, if attacked by a mugger, succeeds in killing the mugger instead of being killed by him -- or shooting herself in the foot.&nbsp; On average, the mugger is much more likely to win the encounter than the little old lady.&nbsp; But -- also on average -- every hundred muggings produces one dead mugger.&nbsp; At those odds, mugging is an unprofitable business -- not many little old ladies carry enough money to justify one chance in a hundred of being killed getting it.&nbsp; The number of muggers declines drastically, not because they have all been killed but because they have, rationally, sought safer professions.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/david+friedman\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more David Friedman quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[964]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/r._buckminster_fuller_quote_a127\"  target=\"_new\">R. Buckminster Fuller, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/R..Buckminster.Fuller.Quote.A127\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/r.+buckminster+fuller\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more R. Buckminster Fuller quotes</i></a></small></b>";   
quote[965]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/michael_gartner_quote_103a\"  target=\"_new\">Michael Gartner, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Michael.Gartner.Quote.103A\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun.&nbsp;  I used to think handguns could be controlled by laws about registration, by laws requiring waiting periods for purchasers, by laws making sellers check out the past of buyers.&nbsp;   I now think the only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns.&nbsp;  And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/michael+gartner\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Michael Gartner quotes</i></a></small></b>"; 
quote[966]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/kenneth_goff_quote_e200\"  target=\"_new\">Kenneth Goff, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Kenneth.Goff.Quote.E200\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/kenneth+goff\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Kenneth Goff quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[967]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/ron_greenburg_quote_c9ab\"  target=\"_new\">Judge Ron Greenburg, quotes about Guns (Questionable)</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ron.Greenburg.Quote.C9AB\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The right just doesn't exist.&nbsp; Clearly, the states no longer need protection from the federal government disarming their \"well-regulated\" militia.&nbsp; The Second Amendment no longer speaks to us.&nbsp; The Second Amendment has no modern day application.&nbsp; The Second Amendment is dead.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/judge+ron+greenburg\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Judge Ron Greenburg quotes</i></small></a></b>"; 
quote[968]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/handgun_control,_inc._quote_c9b5\"  target=\"_new\">Handgun Control, Inc., quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Handgun.Control,.Inc..Quote.C9B5\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The thought that average citizens will somehow be better able to successfully defend themselves more effectively than our nation's trained professionals is absurd.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/handgun+control,+inc.\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Handgun Control, Inc. quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[969]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/robert_heinlein_quote_4ffa\"  target=\"_new\">Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Heinlein.Quote.4FFA\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/robert+a.+heinlein\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Robert A. Heinlein quotes</i></small></a></b>"; 
quote[970]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/charlton_heston_quote_8aea\"  target=\"_new\">Charlton Heston, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Charlton.Heston.Quote.8AEA\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Here's my credo.&nbsp; There are no good guns, There are no bad guns.&nbsp; A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing.&nbsp; Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except bad people.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/charlton+heston\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Charlton Heston quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[971]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/thomas_jefferson_quote_b69b\"  target=\"_new\">Thomas Jefferson, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.B69B\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/thomas+jefferson\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Thomas Jefferson quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[972]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/thomas_jefferson_quote_efec\"  target=\"_new\">Thomas Jefferson, in letter to William S. Smith, 1787</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.EFEC\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.&nbsp; The people cannot be all, and always, well informed.&nbsp; The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.&nbsp; If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.&nbsp;  ...And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?&nbsp; Let them take arms.&nbsp; The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.&nbsp; What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?&nbsp; The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.&nbsp; It is its natural manure.</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/thomas+jefferson\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Thomas Jefferson quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[973]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/thomas_jefferson_quote_b699\"  target=\"_new\">Thomas Jefferson, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.B699\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"A strong body makes the mind strong.&nbsp; As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun.&nbsp; While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind.&nbsp; Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.&nbsp; Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/thomas+jefferson\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Thomas Jefferson quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[974]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/thomas_jefferson_quote_b723\"  target=\"_new\">Thomas Jefferson, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.B723\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Every citizen should be a soldier.&nbsp; This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/thomas+jefferson\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Thomas Jefferson quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[975]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/george_jonas_quote_6527\"  target=\"_new\">George Jonas, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Jonas.Quote.6527\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok.&nbsp;  ...Forget guns.&nbsp; If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/george+jonas\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more George Jonas quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[976]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/john_locke_quote_d1b9\"  target=\"_new\">John Locke, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Locke.Quote.D1B9\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"[F]or nothing is to be accounted hostile force, but where it leaves not the remedy of such an appeal; and it is such force alone, that puts him that uses it into a state of war, and makes it lawful to resist him.&nbsp; A man with a sword in his hand demands my purse in the high-way, when perhaps I have not twelve pence in my pocket: this man I may lawfully kill.&nbsp; To another I deliver 100 pounds to hold only whilst I alight, which he refuses to restore me, when I am got up again, but draws his sword to defend the possession of it by force, if I endeavour to retake it.&nbsp; The mischief this man does me is a hundred, or possibly a thousand times more than the other perhaps intended me (whom I killed before he really did me any); and yet I might lawfully kill the one, and cannot so much as hurt the other lawfully.&nbsp; The reason whereof is plain; because the one using force, which threatened my life, I could not have time to appeal to the law to secure it: and when it was gone, it was too late to appeal.&nbsp; The law could not restore life to my dead carcass: the loss was irreparable; which to prevent, the law of nature gave me a right to destroy him, who had put himself into a state of war with me, and threatened my destruction.&nbsp; But in the other case, my life not being in danger, I may have the benefit of appealing to the law, and have reparation for my 100 pounds that way.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/john+locke\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more John Locke quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[977]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/john_lott_quote_652b\"  target=\"_new\">John R. Lott, Jr., quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Lott.Quote.652B\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"If the rest of the country had adopted right-to-carry concealed-handgun provisions in 1992, about 1,500 murders and 4,000 rapes would have been avoided.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/john+r.+lott,+jr.\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more John R. Lott, Jr. quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[978]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/james_madison_quote_c88a\"  target=\"_new\">James Madison, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Madison.Quote.C88A\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The highest number to which a standing army can be carried in any country does not exceed one hundredth part of the souls, or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms.&nbsp; This portion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men.&nbsp; To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence.&nbsp; It may well be doubted whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops.&nbsp;  ...Besides the advantage of being armed,  ...the existence of subordinate governments  ...forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.&nbsp;  ...[The governments of Europe] are afraid to trust the people with arms.&nbsp;  ...Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/james+madison\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more James Madison quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[979]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/james_madison_quote_4c67\"  target=\"_new\">James Madison, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Madison.Quote.4C67\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.&nbsp; Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.&nbsp; And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes.&nbsp; But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/james+madison\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more James Madison quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[980]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/joyce_malcolm_quote_652f\"  target=\"_new\">Joyce Malcolm, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joyce.Malcolm.Quote.652F\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists.&nbsp; It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/joyce+malcolm\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Joyce Malcolm quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[981]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/joyce_malcolm_quote_652e\"  target=\"_new\">Joyce Lee Malcolm, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joyce.Malcolm.Quote.652E\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"It was during the eighteenth century -- a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution -- that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry.&nbsp; The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/joyce+lee+malcolm\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Joyce Lee Malcolm quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[982]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/george_mason_quote_7ef0\"  target=\"_new\">George Mason, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Mason.Quote.7EF0\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.\"<br>1778 speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Reference: The Debates of the Several State..., Elliot, vol. 3 (380), http://patriotpost.us/historic/quotes/<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/george+mason\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more George Mason quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[983]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/h._l._mencken_quote_deca\"  target=\"_new\">H. L. Mencken, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.DECA\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head.&nbsp; Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/h.+l.+mencken\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more H. L. Mencken quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[984]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/alanna_mitchell_quote_6574\"  target=\"_new\">Alanna Mitchell, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Alanna.Mitchell.Quote.6574\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Jim Creechan, a University of Alberta sociologist, said some of the love of guns may have its roots in Alberta's pervasive free-enterprise model of behaviour.&nbsp; 'It's the whole idea that the individual is more important than the collective.'\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/alanna+mitchell\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Alanna Mitchell quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[985]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/lyle_myhr_quote_4fa2\"  target=\"_new\">Lyle Myhr, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lyle.Myhr.Quote.4FA2\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.&nbsp; When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.&nbsp; When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.&nbsp; Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet.</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/lyle+myhr\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Lyle Myhr quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[986]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/huey_newton_quote_980f\"  target=\"_new\">Huey P. Newton, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Huey.Newton.Quote.980F\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/huey+p.+newton\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Huey P. Newton quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[987]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/huey_newton_quote_85ac\"  target=\"_new\">Huey P. Newton, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Huey.Newton.Quote.85AC\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas.&nbsp; It occupies Vietnam now.&nbsp; They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there.&nbsp; The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishment's hand.&nbsp; They make the racist secure in his racism.&nbsp; The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/huey+p.+newton\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Huey P. Newton quotes</i></a></small></b>";  
quote[988]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/huey_newton_quote_1bb8\"  target=\"_new\">Huey P. Newton, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Huey.Newton.Quote.1BB8\"  target=\"__new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.&nbsp; If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with.&nbsp; One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms.&nbsp; However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/huey+p.+newton\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Huey P. Newton quotes</i></a></small></b>";  
quote[989]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/james_paterson_quote_6539\"  target=\"_new\">James Paterson, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Paterson.Quote.6539\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\" ...in all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms -- and these the best and the sharpest -- for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/james+paterson\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more James Paterson quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[990]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/mario_puzo_quote_3072\"  target=\"_new\">Mario Puzo, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mario.Puzo.Quote.3072\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/mario+puzo\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Mario Puzo quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[991]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/ronald_reagan_quote_58c4\"  target=\"_new\">Ronald Reagan, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.58C4\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!&nbsp; Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/ronald+reagan\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Ronald Reagan quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[992]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/will_rogers_quote_73b4\"  target=\"_new\">Will Rogers, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Will.Rogers.Quote.73B4\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/will+rogers\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Will Rogers quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[993]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/antonin_scalia_quote_6e65\"  target=\"_new\">Justice Antonin Scalia, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Antonin.Scalia.Quote.6E65\"  target=\"__new\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Nowhere else in the Constitution does a 'right' attributed to 'the people' refer to anything other than an individual right.&nbsp; What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention 'the people,' the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset ...The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms ...The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it &#8216;shall not be infringed.'\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/justice+antonin+scalia\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Justice Antonin Scalia quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[994]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/jeff_snyder_quote_653e\"  target=\"_new\">Jeff Snyder, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeff.Snyder.Quote.653E\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow.&nbsp;  ...For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals.&nbsp; Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/jeff+snyder\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Jeff Snyder quotes</i></small></a></b>"; 
quote[995]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/the_washington_times_quote_c9b2\"  target=\"_new\">The Washington Times, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/The.Washington.Times.Quote.C9B2\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"[President Clinton]  ...ordered the Justice Department to begin studying gun licensing, registration, and collection proposals.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/the+washington+times\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more The Washington Times quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[996]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/desmond_tutu_quote_000c\"  target=\"_new\">Bishop Desmond Tutu, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Desmond.Tutu.Quote.000C\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/bishop+desmond+tutu\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more Bishop Desmond Tutu quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[997]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/united_nations'_world_constitution_quote_1f2e\"  target=\"_new\">United Nations' World Constitution, quotes about Guns (False)</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/United.Nations'.World.Constitution.Quote.1F2E\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"The age of nations must end... The governments of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties into one government to which they surrender their arms.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/united+nations'+world+constitution\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more United Nations' World Constitution quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[998]="<b><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/u.s._constitution,_second_amendment_quote_b690\"  target=\"_new\">U.S. Constitution, Second Amendment, quotes about Guns</a><b>:</b>&nbsp; <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/U.S..Constitution,.Second.Amendment.Quote.B690\"  target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\"><small>view/comment</small></font></a><br>\"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.\"<br><a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/u.s.+constitution,+second+amendment\"  target=\"_new\"><small>From quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i>more U.S. Constitution, Second Amendment quotes</i></a></small></b>";    
quote[999]="<b>\"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?&nbsp; I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up among us, it cannot come from abroad.&nbsp; If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.&nbsp; As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die of suicide.\"<br> -- Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, January 1837</b>";
quote[1000]="<b>\"There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.\"<br> --- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), \"1984\", (b.1903-d.1950 CE/AD)</b>";
quote[1001]="<b>\"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.\"<br>  Jesus Christ in Luke 22:36</b>";
quote[1002]="<b>If you don't want to stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in front of them!</b>";
quote[1003]="<b>\"Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, And this be our motto: \"In God is our trust\"; And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.\"<br> -- Francis Scott Key, September 20, 1814</b>";
quote[1004]="<b>\"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.\"<br> ~~ Margaret Thatcher</b>";
quote[1005]="<b>\"Abortion is the greatest deception that has plagued the black church since Lucifer himself.\"<br> -- Pastor Clenard Howard Childress, Jr.,<br>founder of <a href=\"http://www.blackgenocide.org\" target=\"_new\">BlackGenocide.org</a></b>";
quote[1006]="<b>\"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.<br>You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.<br>You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.<br>You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer.<br>You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.<br>You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.<br>You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.<br>You cannot establish security on borrowed money.<br>You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.<br>You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.\"<br> -- William Boetcker, (1873-1962) German-born Presbyterian clergyman, 1916</b><br>Source: often falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln:<br>http://www.cincinnatiskeptics.org/blurbs/lincoln-cannots.html<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Boetcker.Quote.C3F9";
quote[1007]="<b>\"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.\"<br> -- James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President<br><br>Source: 1792, in disapproval of Congress appropriating $15,000 to assist some French refugees<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Madison.Quote.24FE</b>";
quote[1008]="<b>\"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.\"<br> -- Plutarch (c.45-125 A.D.) Priest of the Delphic Oracle<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Plutarch.Quote.E3A1</b>";
quote[1009]="<b>\"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.\"<br> -- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author<br>Source: Atlas Shrugged, Francisco's \"Money Speech\"<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.4138</b>";
quote[1010]="<b>\"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.\"<br> -- Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987)<br>Source: The Ethics of Redistribution [1952] (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1990), p. 72.<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Bertrand.de.Jouvenel.Quote.6413</b>";
quote[1011]="<b>\"For you see, the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.\"<br> -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist<br>Source: his novel 'Coningsby, the New Generation', 1844<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Disraeli.Quote.2E3D</b>";
quote[1012]="<b>\"When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace.\"<br> -- Luke 11:21 (RSV)</b>";
quote[1013]="<b>\"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state.<br>They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.\"<br> -- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)<br>French economist, statesman, and author.<br>He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848<br>Source: \"The Law\" by Frederic Bastiat (1850)<br><a href=http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw>http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw</a><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederic.Bastiat.Quote.B25F</b>";
quote[1014]="<b>\"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid\" -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower.</b>";
quote[1015]="<b>\"A society that does not have the will to let its warriors die fighting will not long survive.&nbsp; A civilization that values its very being less than the dignity of its sworn enemies should be morally prepared to fail.\"<br> -- Sergeant David Goldich, USMC.</b>";
quote[1016]="<b>\"..if you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force.&nbsp; Use too much and deliberately use too much... You'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay\">General Curtis Emerson LeMay, USAF</a> (b.November 15, 1906 - d.October 3, 1990)<br>vice presidential running mate of independent candidate <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace\">Governor George C. Wallace in 1968</a><br><br><small>(sources<b>:</b><br><a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX61.html\" target=\"_new\">PBS.org \"Race for the Superbomb\"</a> [Super Bomb])<br><a href=\"http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Curtis-E.-LeMay\">NationMaster.com encyclopedia re General Curtis Emerson LeMay</a></small></b>"; 
quote[1017]="<b><A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/communist%20manifesto\" target=_top><FONT color=#551a8b>The <I>Communist Manifesto</I> Is Published (1848)</FONT></A><br><br><style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 110%; MARGIN: 3pt\"><STRONG>Commissioned by the Communist League and written by theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the <I>Communist Manifesto</I> is one of the most influential political tracts in history.&nbsp; It calls on the proletariat to overthrow the capitalists, <U><FONT color=#ff0000>abolish private property</FONT></U>, and <U><FONT color=#ff0000>take over the means of production</FONT></U> and advocates policies such as <U><FONT color=#ff0000>a progressive income tax system</FONT></U> and <U><FONT color=#ff0000>universal free public education</FONT></U>.&nbsp; After predicting <U><FONT color=#ff0000>an eventual classless society</FONT></U>, <EM>the document ends with what famous statement</EM>?<br><br><B>The Manifesto of the Communist Party</B> (<A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/German+language\"><FONT color=#1d4994>German</FONT></A>: <SPAN lang=de xml:lang=\"de\"><EM>Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei</EM></SPAN>), usually referred to as <B>The Communist Manifesto</B>, was first published on <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/February+21\"><FONT color=#1d4994>February 21</FONT></A>, <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/1848\"><FONT color=#1d4994>1848</FONT></A>, and is one of the world's most influential <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Politics\"><FONT color=#1d4994>political</FONT></A> tracts.&nbsp; Commissioned by the <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Communist+League\"><FONT color=#1d4994>Communist League</FONT></A> and written by <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Communism\"><FONT color=#1d4994>communist</FONT></A> theorists <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Friedrich+Engels\"><FONT color=#1d4994>Friedrich Engels</FONT></A> and <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Karl+Marx\"><FONT color=#1d4994>Karl Marx</FONT></A>, it laid out the League's purposes and program.&nbsp; The <EM>Manifesto</EM> suggested a course of action for a <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/proletarian\"><FONT color=#1d4994>proletarian</FONT></A> (<A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/working+class\"><FONT color=#1d4994>working class</FONT></A>) revolution to overthrow the <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/bourgeoisie\"><FONT color=#1d4994>bourgeois</FONT></A> <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/social+order\"><FONT color=#1d4994>social order</FONT></A> and to eventually bring about a <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/classless\"><FONT color=#1d4994>classless</FONT></A> and <A href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/stateless\"><FONT color=#1d4994>stateless</FONT></A> society, and the abolition of private property.<br><br>source: <a href=\"http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/communist%20manifesto\">http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/communist%20manifesto</a></b>";
quote[1018]="<b>\"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders.&nbsp; The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited.&nbsp; It operates outside of the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>Wikipedia.org biograph:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Major General, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1019]="<b>\"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater&nbsp;<small>[<i>also</i> Jefferson]</small>&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>Wikipedia.org biograph:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1020]="<b>\"Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>From Wikipedia.org:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1021]="<b>\"There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs.&nbsp; There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being.&nbsp; But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly.&nbsp; The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom.&nbsp; They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent.&nbsp; If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.&nbsp; I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.'&nbsp; Just who do they think they are?&nbsp;  And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>Wikipedia.org biograph:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1022]="<b>\"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.&nbsp; And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator <small>(<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/5cXpyiBnmc0\" target=\"_new\">watch Goldwater deliver the quote at the 1964 RNC</a>)</small>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>Wikipedia.org biograph:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1023]="<b>\"And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse -- the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>Wikipedia.org biograph:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1024]="<b>\"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.&nbsp; I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom.&nbsp; My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.&nbsp; It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution ...  or have failed their purpose ...  or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.&nbsp; I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.&nbsp; And if I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater (1953-1965, 1969-1987)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\"> Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>Wikipedia.org biograph:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1025]="<b><font color=\"red\"><small>(<i>questionable origin</i>)</small><b>:</b></font><br>\"The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States.&nbsp; The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>From Wikipedia.org:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1026]="<b>\"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.&nbsp; Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>Wikipedia.org biograph:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1027]="<b>\"The time has come to recognize the United Nations for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become.&nbsp; The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the United Nations to find headquarters location outside the United States that is more in keeping with the philosophy of the majority of voting members, someplace like Moscow or Peking.\"<br> -- Barry Goldwater&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>from</small> <a href=\"http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/barry+goldwater\"  target=\"_new\"><small>quotes.liberty-tree.ca<b>:</b>&nbsp;  <i><font color=\"red\">more Barry Goldwater quotations</font></i></small></a></b><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><b>Wikipedia.org biograph:</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater\" target=\"_new\">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(born in the  Arizona Territory, January 1, 1909  died May 29, 1998 in the State of Arizona)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;businessman, soldier (WWII/Korea), politician<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987, R-AZ)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Party nominee for President, 1964<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MajorGeneral, U.S. Air Force Reserve<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;known as \"Mr. Conservative\"..the politician most credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.</small>"; 
quote[1028]="<b>\"American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.&nbsp; Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. …The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.\"<br> -- Ron Paul<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ron.Paul.Quote.404C</b>";
quote[1029]="<b>\"Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise.&nbsp; They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.\"<br> -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th US President<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.40BE</b>";
quote[1030]="<b>\"... as all history informs us, there has been in every State &amp; Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing &amp; governed<b>:</b>  the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less.&nbsp; And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people.&nbsp; Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more.&nbsp; The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure.&nbsp; There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) US Founding Father<br>Source: before the Constitutional Convention, (June 2, 1787)<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Franklin.Quote.336B</b>";
quote[1031]="<b>\"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.&nbsp; The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.\"<br> -- Frank Herbert (1920-1986)<br>Source: \"The Dosadi Experiment\"<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frank.Herbert.Quote.A211</b>";
quote[1032]="<b>\"The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.\"<br> -- Fredrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Fredrich.August.von.Hayek.Quote.A208</b>";
quote[1033]="<b>\"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters.&nbsp; Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: `I, the state, am the people.' ... Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth.\"<br> -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)<br>Source: from \"<a href=\"http://eserver.org/philosophy/nietzsche-zarathustra.txt\" target=\"_new\">Thus Spake Zarathustra</a>\" 1891 [plain text translation by Thomas Common]</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Friedrich.Nietzsche.Quote.A20E";
quote[1034]="<b>\"Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.\"<br> -- George Washington (1732-1799)<br>Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'</b><br>Source: Farewell Address</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Washington.Quote.A24E";
quote[1035]="<b>\"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.&nbsp; The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.\"<br> -- Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)<br>Economist and social philosopher</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ludwig.von.Mises.Quote.A20B";
quote[1036]="<b>\"Sensible people of the United States speak out because if you don't, insensible people will.\"<br><br> -- attributed to State Representative Mitchell Aye from Georgia</b>";
quote[1037]="<b>\"This is a verbatim transcription of the sentence from United States of America v. Gonzales, imposed upon the defendant convicted of murder in the Federal District Court of the Territory of New Mexico in the year 1881, by a United States Judge, sitting at [near] Taos in an adobe stable used as a temporary courtroom.<br><br>\"José Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, in a few short weeks, it will be spring.&nbsp; The snows of winter will flee away, the ice will vanish, [and the air will become soft and balmy, in short, José Miguel Xaviar Gonzales,] and the annual miracle of the years will awaken and come to pass, but you won't be there.<br><br>\"The rivulet will run its course to the sea, the timid desert flowers will put forth their tender shoots, the glorious valleys of this imperial domain will blossom as the rose.&nbsp; Still, you won't be there to see.<br><br>\"From every treetop some wild woods songster will carol his mating song, butterflies will sport in the sunshine, the busy bee will hum happy as it pursues its accustomed vocation.&nbsp; The gentle breeze will tease the tassels of the wild grasses, and all nature, José Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, will be glad, but you.<br><br>\"You won't be there to enjoy it because I command the sheriff, or some [other] officers of the country, to lead you out to some remote spot, swing you by the neck from a knotting bough of a sturdy oak, and let you hang until you are dead.<br><br>\"And then, José Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, I further command that such officer or officers retire quickly from your dangling corpse, that vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body until nothing shall remain but the bare bleached bones of a cold-blooded, copper-colored, blood-thirsty, throat-cutting, chili-eating, sheep-herding, murdering son-of-a-bitch.\"<br><br><center>United States of America v. Gonzales (1881)<br>United States District Court, New Mexico Territory sessions</b><br>(true attribution unknown)<br><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Roy_Bean\>falsely attributed to 'justice of the peace', not federal judge</a> the <a href=\"http://www.loc.gov/fedsearch/index.tkl?cclquery=Judge+Roy+Bean&targets%5B%5D=webpages&targets%5B%5D=ammem&targets%5B%5D=catalog&targets%5B%5D=ppoc&targets%5B%5D=thomas&targets%5B%5D=recommend&Search=Search\">Judge Roy Bean</a><br>(the [Texas] <a href=\"http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/western2000/pres/lawbreakers/historical_roy_bean.htm\">commissioners courts appointed Bean 'Justice of the Peace' in 1882</a> (in Eagle's Nest, Vinagaroon, &amp; Langtry, TX))</center><br><br><i>sources</i>: http://westernsensibility.blogspot.com/2008/07/good-ol-days-of-death-sentencing-1881.html (+ Wikipedia & various, including the LOC)";
quote[1038]="<b>\"Power concedes nothing without a demand.&nbsp; It never did, and it never will.&nbsp; Find out just what people will  submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both.&nbsp; The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.\"<br> -- Frederick Douglass [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895),</b><br> escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederick.Douglass.Quote.A210";
quote[1039]="<b>\"The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest.&nbsp; They always did...they always will.&nbsp; They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.\"<br> -- Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816)</b><br>represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, author of large sections of the Constitution for the United States, credited as the author of its Preamble<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Gouverneur.Morris.Quote.A24A";
quote[1040]="<b>\"Let us disappoint the men who would raise themselves upon the ruin of our country.\"<br> -- John Adams (1735-1826 Founding Father, 2nd US President<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.A24D";
quote[1041]="<b>\"Force always attracts men of low morality.\"<br> -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)<br>Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Albert.Einstein.Quote.A21A";
quote[1042]="<b>\"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?\"<br> -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980),</b><br>U. S. Supreme Court Justice<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.O..Douglas.Quote.A225";
quote[1043]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984.&nbsp; He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.\"<br> -- Michael Parenti (1933- )</b><br>Source: \"Inventing Reality\" (1986)<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Michael.Parenti.Quote.A213";
quote[1044]="<b>Actor Clint Eastwood sees nothing funny about political correctness.<br>\"The \"Dirty Harry\" actor told Germany's Der Spiegel that modern society lives in a state of fear over the possibility of being labeled racist for telling jokes based on ethnicity or nationality.&nbsp; \"People have lost their sense of humor,\" he told the magazine.&nbsp; \"In former times we constantly made jokes about different races.&nbsp; You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth otherwise you will be insulted as a racist.&nbsp; \"I find that ridiculous.&nbsp; In those earlier days every friendly clique had a 'Sam the Jew' or 'Jose the Mexican' -- but we didn't think anything of it or have a racist thought.&nbsp; It was normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity.&nbsp; That was never a problem.&nbsp; \"I don't want to be politically correct.&nbsp; We're all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything.\"</b><br><br>source: NewsMax.com, Friday, February 27, 2009";
quote[1045]="<b>What was the government in the United States before the U.S. Constitution was written?<br><br>It was the Articles of Confederation, ratified by the States MARCH 1, 1781.&nbsp; Signed by such statesmen as John Hancock and Samuel Adams, it was an attempt to loosely knit the thirteen States together.<br><br>The Articles of Confederation declared:<br><br>\"Whereas the delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1777, and in the second year of the independence of America agree on certain Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the States...<br><br>The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force...or attacks made upon them...on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense.\"<br><br>The Articles end with the line:<br><br>\"It has pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the Legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation.\"</b><br><br>source: www.AmericanMinute.com";
quote[1046]="<b>\"Nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.</b>\"<br> <b> -- Senator Zell Miller</b> (D-GA)<b>,</b> 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC) Keynote Address<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Quoted from <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zell_Miller#cite_note-11\" target=\"_new\"><b>Senator Zell Miller</b></a>'s address delivered on We.1Sep04  at the RNC held in Madison Square Garden, New York<br><br>&#149; <i>video</i> <a href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/zellmiller2004rnc.htm\" target=\"_new\">view his speech at AmericanRhetoric.com</a> or <a href=\"http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4860081936657048447&ei=IA6VSbybMp3eqAPMqrjCDA&hl=en\" target=\"_new\">view his address at Google.com</a><br>&#149;  <a href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/zellmiller2004rnc.htm\" target=\"_new\"><i>full text of the narrative</i></a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; &#43;  <a href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3clips/politicalspeeches/convention2004/zellmiller2004rnc888888888.mp3\" target=\"_new\"><b>.</b>mp3 audio of the address</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; &#43;  <a href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/PDFFiles/Zell%20Miller%20-%20Republican%20National%20Convention%20Address.pdf\" target=\"_new\"><b>.</b>pdf format document print version</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; &#43;  <a href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/FlashDocuments/Zell%20Miller%20-%20Republican%20National%20Convention%20Address.swf\" target=\"_new\"><b>.</b>swf Flash video version</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; &#43;  <a href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/videoclips/zellmiller2004rncsfd.wmv\" target=\"_new\"><b>.</b>wmv Windows media video version</a><br><i>sources:</i><br>&#183; http://video.google.com<br>&#183; http://americanrhetoric.com's  'American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank'<br>&#183;  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zell_Miller#cite_note-11";
quote[1047]="<b>\"History suggests that the cause of national decline is, as a rule, that the state in the nation concerned has sought to do too much rather than too little.&nbsp;  This applies as much to the Roman Empire as to the Spanish. \"<br> -- Hugh Thomas (1931- )<br> Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, British historian</b><br>Source: \"An Unfinished History of the World\" by Hamish Hamilton (1979)<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Hugh.Thomas.Quote.A222";
quote[1048]="<b>\"Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.\"<br> -- John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) American statesman</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.C..Calhoun.Quote.A226";
quote[1049]="<b>\"By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments.&nbsp; The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.\"<br> -- John Hospers (1918- ) Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, author</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Hospers.Quote.A20F";
quote[1050]="<b>\Q: \"Secretary Rumsfeld, do you want to catch (Bin Laden) dead or alive or either way?\"<br><br>A: \"Well, the president's policy is dead or alive.&nbsp; And, you know, I have my preference...\"<br><br> -- Donald Henry Rumsfeld (b. 9Jul32- ),<br>13th (youngest) &amp; 21st (oldest) Secretary of Defense (1975-1977 &amp; 2001-2006)</b>";
quote[1051]="<b>\"These are the times that try men's souls.&nbsp; The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.\"<br> -- Thomas Paine</b>";
quote[1052]="<b>\"Yonder are the Hessians.&nbsp; They were bought for seven pounds and ten pence a man.&nbsp; Are you worth more?&nbsp; Prove it.&nbsp; Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!\"<br> -- John Stark at the Battle of Bennington in 1777</b>";
quote[1053]="<b>\"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.\"<br> -- Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933), 30th US President</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Calvin.Coolidge.Quote.A21F";
quote[1054]="<b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">This interesting prayer was given in <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Kansas</st1:State> at&nbsp;the opening session of the Kansas House in Topeka on January 23, 1996.&nbsp; It seems </SPAN></FONT></b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><b>the prayer still upsets some people.&nbsp; When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open</SPAN></b>&nbsp;<b>the new session of the</st1:State> Senate, everyone was expecting the usual</SPAN></b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>generalities, but this is&nbsp;</SPAN></b></SPAN></FONT><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">what they heard:</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><hr>Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask&nbsp;your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.<br><br>We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those</SPAN></FONT></b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;<b>who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we</SPAN></b>&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">have done.</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">our values.&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>We have exploited the poor and called it</SPAN></FONT></b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">the lottery.</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>We have rewarded laziness and called it&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000099 size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000099; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">welfare.</SPAN></FONT></b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;<b><BR><BR>We have killed our unborn and called it</SPAN></b>&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">choice.</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>We have shot abortionists and called it </SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">justifiable...</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>We have neglected to discipline our</SPAN></FONT></b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;<b>children and called it</SPAN></b></SPAN></FONT><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;building self esteem.&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>We have abused power and called it </SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">politics.</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000099 size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000099; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">ambition</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">.</SPAN></FONT></b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><BR><BR>We have polluted</SPAN></b></SPAN></FONT><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">the air with profanity and </SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">pornography and called it</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;freedom of expression.</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">&nbsp;enlightenment.</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>Search &nbsp;us, Oh, God, and know our hearts&nbsp;today; &nbsp;cleanse us from every sin and set us free.&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"> Amen! &nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><hr>The response was immediate.&nbsp; A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in&nbsp;protest.&nbsp; In 6 short weeks, Central Christian&nbsp;Church, &nbsp;where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than&nbsp;<BR>5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls&nbsp;responding negatively.&nbsp; The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\">from India</st1:country-region>, Africa and <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Korea.&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></b><b><FONT face=Tahoma color=black size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma\"><BR><BR>Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on&nbsp;his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response</SPAN></FONT></b><br><i>notes</i><b>:</b><br>This event actually happened in the Kansas House (not Senate) in Topeka on January 23, 1996.&nbsp;   Joe Wright is the pastor of Central Christian Church in Wichita and was guest chaplain that day.&nbsp;  He prayed a prayer of repentance that was written by Bob Russell, pastor of  Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky.&nbsp; According to an article in the Kansas City Star from January 24, 1996, his prayer did stir controversy and one member of the legislative body walked out.&nbsp;  Others criticized the prayer.&nbsp;  The controversy didn't end there.&nbsp;  Later that year in the Colorado House, Republican representative Mark Paschall angered lawmakers by using Joe Wright's prayer as the invocation.&nbsp;  Some members there also walked out in protest.&nbsp; <br><br>Paul Harvey did air the story and the prayer.&nbsp;  He got such a large response that a phone number was set up to handle the calls.&nbsp;  He aired it a couple more times since.&nbsp; <small>(source: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/kansasprayer.htm)</small><br>Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 - February 28, 2009), better known as Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks.&nbsp; <small>(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harvey)</small>";
quote[1055]="<b>\"<font face=\"Monotype Corsiva\" size=\"8\">\"Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.\"</font><br> -- The Holy Bible, Matthew 5<b>:</b></b>4";
quote[1056]="<b>\"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.\"<br> -- John F. Kennedy, In an address to Latin American diplomats at the White House (13 March 1962)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917-1963)</b>";
quote[1057]="<b>Great Orators of the  Democratic Party:</b><br>'One man with courage  makes a majority.' - (President) Andrew  Jackson<br> 'The only thing we have  to fear is fear itself.' - (President) Franklin D. Roosevelt<br>'The buck stops  here.' - (President) Harry S. Truman<br>'Ask not what your  country can do for you; ask what you can do for your  country.' - (President) John F. Kennedy<br> (<i><u>Note by the way</u></i>, this is an exact quote from a speech given by Army General Omar Bradley in 1953, just a few years prior to JFK using it in his inaugural speech.&nbsp; JFK or his speech writers recognized a great quote, but none credited Bradley for one of the greatest patriotic quotes of all time - <i>plagiarism, anyone?</i>)<br><b>And for today's Democrats...</b><br>\'It depends what your definition of 'IS' is?' - (Governor &amp; President) Bill Clinton<br>'Those rumors are false... I believe in the sanctity of marriage.' - John  Edwards<br>'I invented the Internet.' - (Senator &amp; VP) Al Gore<br>'The next Person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.' - Senator &amp; V.P. Joe  Biden <br>'America is--is no longer, uh, what it--it, uh, could be, uh what it was once was...uh, and I say to myself, 'uh, I don't want that future, uh, uh for my children.'  - (Barry) Barack Hussein (Soetoro) Obama, Junior [State &amp; Federal Senator (IL-D) &amp; President]<br>'I have campaigned in all 57 states.'  - (Barry) Barack Hussein (Soetoro) Obama, Junior [Harvard Graduate &amp; candidate for President of the U.S.]<br>'You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats.' - (Representative) Nancy Pelosi (said back in 2006)<br>'Paying taxes is voluntary.'  - Senator Harry Reid<br>'Bill is the greatest husband and father I know.&nbsp; No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he.' - Hillary Clinton (said back in  1998) [wife, Senator, Secretary of State]";
quote[1058]="<b>\"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.\"<br> ~~ Winston Churchill (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II.&nbsp; 1874-1965)</b>";
quote[1059]="<b>\"U.S. Constitution:&nbsp;ARTICLE IV, Section 4.<br>The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.\"<br><br>source<b>:</b> FindLaw, http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/<b>";
quote[1060]="<b>\"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (American 3rd US President (1801-09) &amp; Author of the Declaration of Independence.&nbsp; 1762-1826)</b>";
quote[1061]="<b>\"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.\"<br> -- John F. Kennedy, In an address to Latin American diplomats at the White House (13 March 1962)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917-1963)</b>";
quote[1062]="<b>\"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.\"<br> -- Thomas Carlyle</b>";
quote[1063]="<b>\"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.\"<br> -- Supreme Court Justice, William O. Douglas</b>";
quote[1064]="<b>\"Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.\"<br> -- James Fenimore Cooper<br>(1789-1851) American Novelist<br>Source: The American Democrat, 1838</b><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Cooper.Quote.9325";
quote[1065]="<b>\"Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.\"<br> -- Ralph Nader<br>(1934-) American attorney and political activist<br>Source: introduction to The Closed Enterprise System</b><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ralph.Nader.Quote.1143";
quote[1066]="<b>\"The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies.\"<br> -- Samuel P. Hays<br>Source: The Response to Industrialism 1885-1914, p. 26,<br>describing the view of E.L. Godkin, who founded the weekly Nation</b><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Hays.Quote.D480";
quote[1067]="<b>\"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ... Roosevelt's policies were very destructive.&nbsp; Roosevelt's policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been.\"<br> -- Milton Friedman (1912-2006)<br>Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, \"ultimate guru of the free-market system\"<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Milton.Friedman.Quote.0AB6</b>";
quote[1068]="<b>\"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.&nbsp; What one person receives without working for, another  person must work for without receiving.&nbsp; The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.&nbsp; When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.&nbsp; You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.\"<br> -- Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005</b>";
quote[1069]="<b>\"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter.&nbsp; -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.&nbsp; I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.&nbsp; Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.\" -- Daniel Webster<br>(1782-1852), US Senator<br><br>Source: June 1, 1837; Works 1:403<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Daniel.Webster.Quote.3E56</b>";
quote[1070]="<b>\"You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine.<br>You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine.<br>I will free the world of a poisonous thing.<br>Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!\"<br> -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br>(1859-1930) Scottish author, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes<br><br>Source<b>:</b> The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, 1904<br>http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_Charles_Augustus_Milverton<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Arthur.Conan.Doyle.Quote.BEBF</b>";
quote[1071]="<b>\"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.\"<br> -- Davy Crockett<br>(1786-1836) American hunter, frontiersman, soldier and politician<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Davy.Crockett.Quote.E3EC</b>";
quote[1072]="<b>\"Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it<b>:</b> tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc.&nbsp; And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.\"<br> -- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)<br>French economist, statesman, and author.<br>He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848<br><br>Source: Essays, 61<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederic.Bastiat.Quote.D7DE</b>";
quote[1073]="<b>\"In my many years I have come to a conclusion: that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.\"<br> ~ John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a politician, Founding Father,<br>1st Vice President (1789–1797) and 2nd President of the United States (1797–1801).<br>Greatest Jokes of the Century Book 22, Google Books.</b><br><br>http://simple.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Adams";
quote[1074]="<b>\"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.\"<br> ~ Mark Twain</b>";
quote[1075]="<b>\"Suppose you were an idiot..&nbsp; And suppose you were a  member of Congress.&nbsp; But then I repeat myself.\"<br> ~ Mark Twain</b>";
quote[1076]="<b>\"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.\"<br> ~ Winston Churchill</b>";
quote[1077]="<b>\"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.\"<br> ~ George Bernard Shaw</b>";
quote[1078]="<b>\"A liberal is someone who feels a debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.\"<br> ~ G. Gordon Liddy</b>";
quote[1079]="<b>\"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.\"<br> ~ Douglas Casey</b>";
quote[1080]="<b>\"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.\"<br> ~ P.J. O'Rourke, 20 Civil Libertarian</b>";
quote[1081]="<b>\"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.\"<br> ~ Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)</b>";
quote[1082]="<b>\"I don't make jokes.&nbsp; I just watch the government and report the facts.\"<br> ~ Will Rogers</b>";
quote[1083]="<b>\"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!\"<br>  ~ P.J. O'Rourke</b>";
quote[1084]="<b>\"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!\"<br>  ~ Pericles (430 B.C.)</b>";
quote[1085]="<b>\"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.\"<br> ~ Mark Twain (1866)</b>";
quote[1086]="<b>\"Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.\"<br> ~ Anonymous</b>";
quote[1087]="<b>\"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings... The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.\"<br> ~ Winston  Churchill</b>";
quote[1088]="<b>\"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.\"<br> ~ Mark  Twain</b>";
quote[1089]="<b>\"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.\"<br> ~ Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)</b>";
quote[1090]="<b>\"There is no distinctly Native American criminal class ... save Congress.\"<br> ~ Mark Twain</b>";
quote[1091]="<b>\"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.\"<br> ~ Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)</b>";
quote[1092]="<b>\"The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.\"<br> -- Edwin Feulner (1941- ) Founder and President of the Heritage Foundation<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edwin.Feulner.Quote.3F90</b>";
quote[1093]="<b>\"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.\"<br> -- Voltaire (1764) [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Voltaire.Quote.03D8</b>";
quote[1094]="<b>\"The blame for [the national debt] lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom have been unwilling to make the hard choices or to explain to the American people that there is no such thing as a free lunch.\"<br> -- Warren Rudman (1930- ) US Senator (R-NH)<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Warren.Rudman.Quote.FCEA</b>";
quote[1095]="<b>\"Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.\"<br> -- Will Durant (1885-1981) American psychologist, philosopher<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Will.Durant.Quote.DEA1</b>";
quote[1096]="<b>\"The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.&nbsp; The wise and correct course to follow in taxation is not to destroy those who have already secured success, but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful.\"<br> -- Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933), 30th US President<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Calvin.Coolidge.Quote.B6B6</b>";
quote[1097]="<b>\"Who could impose such socialistic confiscatory rates?\"<br> -- William F. Borah<br>Source: denying the possibility that income tax could ever exceed 9%<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Borah.Quote.393C</b>";
quote[1098]="<b>Leg history of Militia Act of 1792, posted by David Hardy &#183; 5Aug05<br><br>\"That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state…\" &nbsp; These are the words of the Virginia Bill of Rights in July 1776.<br><br>\"The first State of Virginia Militia Act of 1777 states, \"If any soldier be certified to the court martial to be so poor that he cannot purchase such arms, the said court shall cause them to be procured at the expense of the publick, to be reimbursed out of the fines on the delinquents of the county, which arms shall be delivered to such poor person to be used at musters, but shall continue the property of the county; and if any soldier shall sell or conceal such arms, the seller or concealer, and purchaser, shall each of them forfeit the sum of six pounds.&nbsp; And on the death of such poor soldier, or his removal out of the county, such arms shall be delivered to his captain, who shall make  report thereof to the next court martial, and deliver the same to such other poor soldier as they shall order.\"<br><br>\"<u>The great object is, that every man be armed</u>.&nbsp; But can the people afford to pay for double sets of arms, etc.?&nbsp; <u>Every one Who is able may have a gun</u>.&nbsp; But we have learned, by experience, that, necessary as it is to have arms, and though our Assembly has, by a succession of laws for many years, endeavored to have the militia completely armed, it is still far from being the case.\"<br> -- Patrick Henry, Virginia Debates on the Federal Constitution, 1788.<br><br>source: <a href=\"http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2005/08/leg_history_of.php\" target=\"_new\">of Arms and the Law<b>:</b>&nbsp; http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2005/08/leg_history_of.php</a> &amp; <a href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=eB5CAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA530&ots=zkdQs5dr40&dq=But%20can%20the%20people%20afford%20to%20pay%20for%20double%20sets%20of%20arms&pg=PA530&output=text\" target=\"_new\"><b><i>Patrick Henry; \"Life, Correspondence and Speeches\"</b></i></a> pp. 527 - 531 by William Wirt Henry<br>('Liberty or Death' Speech, member of Continental Congress, Governor of Virginia,<br>member Virginia convention to ratify U.S. Constitution, urged creation of Bill of Rights for Constitution )";
quote[1099]="<b>\"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.\"<br> -- James A. Garfield (1831-1881)<br>20th President of the United States (1881)</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Garfield.Quote.A405";
quote[1100]="<b>\"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy.<br>That used to be a huge number.<br>But it's only a hundred billion.<br>It's less than the national deficit!<br>We used to call them astronomical numbers.<br>Now we should call them economical numbers.\"<br> -- Richard Feynman (1918-1988)<br>American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Richard.Feynman.Quote.453D";
quote[1101]="<b>\"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.\"<br> -- H. L. Mencken</b>";
quote[1102]="<b>\"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.\"";
quote[1103]="<b>\"I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children.&nbsp; Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.\"<br> -- Davy Crockett (1786-1836)<br>American hunter, frontiersman, soldier and politician</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Davy.Crockett.Quote.6C0B";
quote[1104]="<b>\"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.\"<br> -- Everett Dirksen</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Everett.Dirksen.Quote.D8A4";
quote[1105]="<b>\"Security is mostly superstition.\"<br> -- Helen Keller (1880-1968) Blind-Deaf Author</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Helen.Keller.Quote.967B";
quote[1106]="<b>\"If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interest, or that of their families, counties, and party, to that of the nation collectively, some provision must be made in the constitution, in favor of justice, to compel all to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations... And that the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of history... To remedy the dangers attendant upon the arbitrary use of power, checks, however multiplied, will scarcely avail without an explicit admission some limitation of the right of the majority to exercise sovereign authority over the individual citizen... In popular governments [democracies], minorities [individuals] constantly run much greater risk of suffering from arbitrary power than in absolute monarchies...\"<br> -- John Adams (1735-1826)<br>Founding Father, 2nd US President<br>Source \"On Government\", (1778)</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.54A1";
quote[1107]="<b>\"The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on.\"<br> -- Col. Jeff Cooper, \"The Father of the Modern Techniques of Shooting\"</b><br><br><small>Firearms expert & author, \"Principles of Personal Defense\"<br>Quote, \"The difference between survival or death in a criminal confrontation.&nbsp; His seven principles are stark and brutal (Alertness, Decisiveness, Aggressiveness, Speed, Coolness, Ruthlessness and Surprise.)\"</small>";
quote[1108]="<b>\"Be first or be dead... there are no second place winners.\"<br> -- William Henry (Bill) Jordan (12Feb1911-4Oct1997)</b><br>Major, USMC Reserves, U.S. Border Patrol, NRA, author \"No Second Place Winner\"</b>";
quote[1109]="<b>\"Compared to the Japanese, Allah's troops are just a lot of effeminate cowards.\"<br> --  Kurt Saxon, '<a href=\"http://www.kurtsaxon.com/islam001.htm\" target=\"_new\">Islam versus Civilization</a></b>";
quote[1110]="<b>\"We are all doubtless bound to contribute a certain portion of our income to the support of charitable and other useful public institutions.&nbsp; But it is a part of our duty also to apply our contributions in the most effectual way we can to secure this object.&nbsp; The question then is whether this will not be better done by each of us appropriating our whole contribution to the institutions within our reach, under our own eye, and over which we can exercise some useful control?&nbsp; Or would it be better that each should divide the sum he can spare among all the institutions of his State or the United States?&nbsp; Reason and the interest of these institutions themselves, certainly decide in favor of the former practice.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),<br>US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.BF6C";
quote[1111]="<b>\"When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government.\"<br> -- Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) 22nd & 24th US President<br>Source: Second Annual Message, December 1886<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Grover.Cleveland.Quote.F34D";
quote[1112]="<b>\"We built your fort.&nbsp; We will not have it used against us.\"<br> -- John Wayne [Marion Morrison] (1907-1979)<br>American film actor<br>Source: as James Smith in 'Allegheny Uprising' (1939)<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Wayne.Quote.B954";
quote[1113]="<b>\"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.\"<br> -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)<br> American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.F9AB";
quote[1114]="<b>\"Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted.&nbsp; Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals.&nbsp; Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination.&nbsp; So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.'&nbsp; The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.\"<br> -- Joseph Sobran (1946- ) Columnist</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joseph.Sobran.Quote.403B";
quote[1115]="<b>\"The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity.&nbsp; The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.\"<br> -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister of England</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Winston.Churchill.Quote.3FAC";
quote[1116]="<b>\"[I]t does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds....\"<br> --Samuel Adams</b>";
quote[1117]="<b>\"The assembly was in confusion:<br> Some were shouting one thing, some another.<br>Most of the people did not even know why they were there.\"<br> -- from the Christian Bible, Acts 19:32 NIV</b><br><br>..applies equally well to today's American government.";
quote[1118]="<b>\"For the average American family, filling out a tax form has become like attacking a puzzle to which, often enough, there is no right answer.&nbsp; But we're all supposed to swear, on penalty of perjury, that we've done our best to find it.\"<br> -- Paul Greenberg, Columnist, The Washington Times</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Paul.Greenberg.Quote.3F66";
quote[1119]="<b>\"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today.\"<br> -- Thomas Sowell (1930- ) Writer and economist</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Sowell.Quote.4031";
quote[1120]="<b>\"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.\"<br> -- Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Will.Rogers.Quote.3FF9";
quote[1121]="<b>\"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.\"<br> -- P. J. O'Rourke (1947- )<br>US humorist, journalist, & political commentator<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/P..J..O'Rourke.Quote.A99C";
quote[1122]="<b>\"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),<br>US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President<br>Source: letter to William Plumer, July 21, 1816<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.1156";
quote[1123]="<b>\"People are tired of liberty.<br>They have had a surfeit of it.<br>Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin...<br>Today’s youth are moved by other slogans...<br>Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.\"<br> -- Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), <br>Italian dictator during WW2<br>Source: Speech, March 1923<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benito.Mussolini.Quote.A80C";
quote[1124]="<b>\"The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative.\"<br> -- Henry Grady Weaver (1889-1949)<br>Source: \"The Mainspring of Human Progress,\" 1947<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.Weaver.Quote.BD57";
quote[1025]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system.&nbsp; Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting against it.&nbsp; When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.\"<br> -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)<br>Source: in his book entitled \"The New World Order\" (1939)<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..G..Wells.Quote.0B33";
quote[1126]="<b>\"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy.&nbsp; An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, circa 1774</b>";
quote[1127]="<b><a href=\"http://www.773.com\" target=\"_new\"><font color=\"red\">America's Final Solution</font></a><b>:</b> abortion<br> -- Me.&nbsp; Robert Harrold, 1996</b>";
quote[1128]="<b>\"I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people.&nbsp; It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful.\"<br> -- Fisher Ames, letter to George Richard Minot, 23 June 1789</b>";
quote[1129]="<b>\"Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.\"<br> -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, 21 December 1787</b>";
quote[1030]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"Freedom is Slavery.\"<br> -- George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950)<br>British author.&nbsp; Source: his book, \"1984\"</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Orwell.Quote.57BE";
quote[1131]="<b>\"The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy.&nbsp; The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.\"<br> -- Linda Bowles (1952-2003) Columnist</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Linda.Bowles.Quote.57F3";
quote[1132]="<b>\"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.\"<br> -- Milton Friedman (1912-2006)<br>Nobel Prize-winning economist,<br>economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan,<br>\"ultimate guru of the free-market system\"</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Milton.Friedman.Quote.80D3";
quote[1133]="<b>\"It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled.&nbsp; It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.\"<br> -- Mercy Warren<br>History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, 1805</b>";
quote[1134]="<b>\"If you don't know from where you came, you won't know to where you are going.\",<br> -- Robert Harrold (me) 1998</b>";
quote[1135]="<b>\"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.\"<br> -- Ronald Reagan, President of the United States</b>";
quote[1136]="<b>\"Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty.&nbsp; Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God...&nbsp; Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments.\"<br> -- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765</b>";
quote[1137]="<b>\"Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add...&nbsp;artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.\"<br> -- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) 7th US President<br>Source: veto of national bank bill, July 10, 1832</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Andrew.Jackson.Quote.686E";
quote[1138]="<b>\"The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.&nbsp; Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender.&nbsp; The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation.&nbsp; These notes are not money, but promises to pay money.&nbsp; If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept.\"<br> -- James A. Garfield (1831-1881) 20th President of the United States (1881)<br>Source: Inaugural Address, March 14, 1881</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Garfield.Quote.CBBF";
quote[1139]="<b>\"Federal Reserve Notes Are Not Dollars.\"<br> -- Russell Munk, Assistant General Counsel, Dept. of the Treasury<br>Source: in a 1977 letter</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Russell.Munk.Quote.50E8";
quote[1140]="<b>\"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.\"<br><br> -- Thomas Jefferson</b>";
quote[1141]="<b>\"If there may be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.\"<br> -- Thomas Paine</b>";
quote[1142]="<b>\"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.\"</b>"
quote[1143]="<b>\"<FONT face=\"Lucida Calligraphy\" color=#943634 size=3><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #943634; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Calligraphy'\">When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;</SPAN></FONT></B>";
quote[1144]="<b>\"The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes [and] delegated to that government certain definite powers and whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.&nbsp; To this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming, as to itself, the other party.&nbsp; The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution the measure of its powers.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),<br>US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President<br>Source: in his draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 which were written in response to an attempt by Congress to expand the criminal jurisdiction of the federal government through a set of laws entitled the \"Alien and Sedition Laws.\"</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.5F8B";
quote[1145]="<b>\"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),<br>US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President<br>Source: Letter to William Hunter, 11 March 1790<br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.8340";
quote[1146]="<b>\"[The] Bank of the United States... is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution...&nbsp; An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government.&nbsp; I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries.&nbsp; What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war!&nbsp; It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids.&nbsp; Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),<br>US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President<br>Source: Thomas Jefferson did write this (about Banks) to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin in 1803</b><br><br>http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1325.htm<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.62BC";
quote[1147]="<b>\"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism.&nbsp; A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.\"<br> -- George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796</b>";
quote[1148]="<b>\"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance?&nbsp; Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[1149]="<b>\"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>"; 
quote[1150]="<b>\"Does the government fear us?&nbsp; Or do we fear the government?&nbsp; When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory.&nbsp; The federal government is our servant, not our master!\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[1151]="<b>\"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[1152]="<b>\"Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[1153]="<b>\"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be...The people cannot be safe without information.&nbsp; Where the press is free and every man is able to read, all is safe.\" - Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[1154]="<b>\"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.\"<br> -- Voltaire</b>";
quote[1155]="<b>\"Experience has shown that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</a> (b.1743-d.1826), 3rd President of the United States: 1801-1809</b>";
quote[1156]="<b>\"That the said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the united states, who are peaceable Citizens, from keeping their own arms.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams</b>";
quote[1157]="<b>\"I heartily accept the motto, that the government is best which governs the least.\"<br> -- Henry David Thoreau</b>";
quote[1158]="<b>\"The very fame of our strength and readiness would be a means of discouraging our enemies; for 'tis a wise and true saying, that one sword often keeps another in the scabbard.&nbsp; The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war.&nbsp; They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin</b>";
quote[1159]="<b>\"The Constitution preserves \"the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation\" ....Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.\"<br> <br> -- James Madison (Drafted Virginia Constitution, Member of Continental Congress, Virginia delegate to Constitutional Convention, named \"Father of the Constitution\",<br>author of Federalist Papers, author of the Bill of Rights, Congressman from Virginia, Secretary of State, 4th President)<br>(Federalist Papers #46)</b><br><br>src: WRH";  
quote[1160]="<b>\"If all Americans want is security, they can go to prison.&nbsp; They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads.&nbsp; But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.\"<br> -- President Dwight Eisenhower</b>";
quote[1161]="<b>\"There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our heart; a law that comes to us not by training or custom or reading but from nature itself, if our lives are endangered, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.\"<br> -- Roman Orator Cicero</b><br><br>Posted by The_West on 8/20/2007";
quote[1162]="<b>\"If our masters are human (and I have grave doubts on that point) then they are lower than a serpent's belly for their crimes against humanity.&nbsp; These maniacally evil incarnate devils deserve the cruelest death imaginable and their corrupted, black souls forever banished to the ether never to rise again.&nbsp; Unfortunately, history proves time after time that these demons are born into the world every so often to terrorize the human race.\"<br> -- Whitewraithe</b>";
quote[1163]="<b>\"If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation.&nbsp; This is a staggering thought.&nbsp;  We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks.&nbsp;  Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.&nbsp;  If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve.&nbsp;  We are absolutely without a permanent money system.&nbsp;  When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is.&nbsp;  It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon.&nbsp;  It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.\"<br> -- Robert Hemphill, Credit Manager of Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Ga.<br>Source: In the foreword to a book by Irving Fisher, entitled 100% Money</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Hemphill.Quote.CA66";
quote[1164]="<b>\"... our whole monetary system is dishonest, as it is debt-based...&nbsp; We did not vote for it.&nbsp; It grew upon us gradually but markedly since 1971 when the commodity-based system was abandoned.\"<br> -- The Earl of Caithness<br>Source: in a speech to the House of Lords, 1997</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/The.Earl.of.Caithness.Quote.2A3B";
quote[1165]="<b>\"To ignore the evidence, and hope that it cannot be true, is more an evidence of mental illness.\"<br> -- William Blase</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Blase.Quote.4F82";
quote[1166]="<b>\"So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before.&nbsp; This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.\"<br> -- William Richardson Davie (1756-1820)<br>Governor of North Carolina (1798-1799), North Carolina delegate to the 1787-88 Constitutional Convention<br>Source: speech in the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Convened at Hillsborough, on Monday the 21st Day of July, 1788, for the Purpose of Deliberating and Determining on the Constitution Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, the 17th Day of September, 1787: To Which is Prefixed the Said Constitution (Edenton, N.C.: Hodge  and Wills, 1789).</b><br><br>http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-revolution/4285<br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Davie.Quote.D20B";
quote[1167]="<b>\"But how is this legal plunder to be identified?&nbsp; Quite simply.&nbsp; See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.&nbsp; See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.\"<br> -- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)<br>French economist, statesman, and author.<br>Source: \"The Law\" by Frederic Bastiat (1848)</b><br><br><a href=http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw>http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw</a><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederic.Bastiat.Quote.70E1";
quote[1168]="<b>\"Taxation without representation is tyranny.\"<br> -- James Otis (1725-1783)<br>Source: Watchword (coined 1761?) of the American Revolution.<br>See Samuel Eliot Morison, 'James Otis', Dict. Am. Biog., xiv.102</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Otis.Quote.C845";
quote[1169]="<b>\"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.\"<br> -- Sigmund Freud<br>Source: Civilization and Its Discontents</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Sigmund.Freud.Quote.76C8";
quote[1070]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it.&nbsp; The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.\"<br><br> -- James Paul Warburg (1896-1969)<br>son of Paul Moritz Warburg, nephew of Felix Warburg and of Jacob Schiff, both of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. which poured millions into the Russian Revolution through James' brother Max, banker to the German government, Chairman of the CFR<br>Source: while speaking before the United States Senate, February 17, 1950</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Warburg.Quote.BC08";
quote[1071]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation.&nbsp; At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as 'international bankers.'&nbsp; This little coterie... run our government for their own selfish ends.&nbsp; It operates under cover of a self-created screen...[and] seizes...our executive officers... legislative bodies... schools... courts... newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.\"<br> -- John F. Hylan (1868-1936),<br>Mayor of New York City (1918-1925), nicknamed \"Red Mike\"</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Hylan.Quote.7E8E";
quote[1072]="<b><font color=\"red\">Fore-Warned:</font><br>\"The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic -  what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.\"<br> -- Joseph H. Choate (1832-1917)<br>attorney who successfully challenged the Income Tax Act of 1894<br>Source: United States Supreme Court, Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co. (1898)</b><br><br>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joseph.Choate.Quote.BD24";
quote[1173]="<b>\"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html";
quote[1174]="<b>\"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1175]="<b>\"America is great because she is good.&nbsp; If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1176]="<b>\"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1177]="<b>\"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation.&nbsp; He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say \"Gentlemen\" to the person with whom he is conversing.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1178]="<b>\"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html";
quote[1179]="<b>\"Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1180]="<b>\"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality.&nbsp; But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1181]="<b>\"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1182]="<b>\"He was as great as a man can be without morality.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1183]="<b>\"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1184]="<b>\"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1185]="<b>\"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1186]="<b>\"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1187]="<b>\"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1188]="<b>\"In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1189]="<b>\"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1190]="<b>\"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1191]="<b>\"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1192]="<b>\"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html";
quote[1193]="<b>\"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1194]="<b>\"Life is to entered upon with courage.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1195]="<b>\"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1196]="<b>\"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1097]="<b><font color=\"red\">Warning:</font><br>\"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1198]="<b>\"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1199]="<b>\"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal.&nbsp; Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1200]="<b>\"The French want no-one to be their superior.&nbsp; The English want inferiors.&nbsp; The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety.&nbsp; The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1201]="<b>\"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1202]="<b>\"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1203]="<b>\"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1204]="<b>\"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1205]="<b>\"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1206]="<b>\"The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1207]="<b>\"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1208]="<b>\"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1209]="<b>\"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1210]="<b>\"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1211]="<b>\"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare.&nbsp; I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1212]="<b>\"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1213]="<b>\"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1214]="<b>\"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1215]="<b>\"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands.&nbsp; In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html"; 
quote[1216]="<b>\"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.\"<br> -- <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_new\"><b>Alexis</b>-Charles-Henri Clérel <b>de Tocqueville</b></a><br>(July 29, 1805, Paris – April 16, 1859, Cannes) philosopher &amp; historian</b><br><br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexis_de_tocqueville.html";
quote[1217]="<b>\<b>IT IS THE SOLDIER</b><br><br>It is the Soldier, not the minister<br>Who has given us freedom of religion.<br><br>It is the Soldier, not the reporter<br>Who has given us freedom of the press.<br><br>It is the Soldier, not the poet<br>Who has given us freedom of speech.<br><br>It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer<br>Who has given us freedom to protest.<br>It is the Soldier, not the lawyer<br>Who has given us the right to a fair trial.<br>It is the Soldier, not the politician<br>Who has given us the right to vote.<br><br>It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,<br>Who serves beneath the flag,<br>And whose coffin is draped by the flag,<br>Who allows the protester to burn the flag.<br><br></b>&copy; 1970-2005 by <a href=\"http://www.pattonhq.com/koreamemorial.html\" target=\"_new\">Charles Michael Province</a>, US Army<br><br><small>(source: http://www.iwvpa.net/provincecm/ )</small>";
quote[1218]="<b>\"This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.&nbsp; Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.\"<br> -- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1219]="<b>\"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 12 July 1816</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1220]="<b>\"Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.\"<br> -- Thomas Paine</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1221]="<b>\"[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, 11 September 1804</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1222]="<b>\"We have duties, for the discharge of which we are accountable to our Creator and benefactor, which no human power can cancel.&nbsp; What those duties are, is determinable by right reason, which may be, and is called, a well informed conscience.\"<br> -- Theophilus Parsons, the Essex Result, 1778</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1223]="<b>\"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.\"<br> -- James Madison</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1224]="<b>\"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.&nbsp; That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, ...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.\"<br> -- Declaration of Independence, 1776</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1225]="<b>\"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people.&nbsp; The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy.&nbsp; An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy...&nbsp; These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1226]="<b>\"[The President] is the dignified, but accountable magistrate of a free and great people.&nbsp; The tenure of his office, it is true, is not hereditary; nor is it for life: but still it is a tenure of the noblest kind: by being the man of the people, he is invested; by continuing to be the man of the people, his investiture will be voluntarily, and cheerfully, and honourably renewed.\"<br> -- James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1227]="<b>\"There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.\"<br> -- George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1228]="<b>\"On the other hand, the duty imposed upon him to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.'&nbsp; The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.\"<br> -- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1229]="<b>\"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be to-morrow.\"<br> -- James Madison (likely), Federalist No. 62, 1788</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1230]="<b>\"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1231]="<b>\"But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.&nbsp; For this purpose the reading in the first stage, where they will receive their whole education, is proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly historical.&nbsp; History by apprising them of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1232]="<b>\"[R]eligion, or the duty which we owe to our creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and this is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.\"<br> -- Virginia Bill of Rights, Article 16</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1233]="<b>\"I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.\"<br> -- George Washington, letter to the General Committee of the United Baptist Churches in Virginia, May 1789</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1234]="<b>\"Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty.&nbsp; Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God.\"<br> -- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1235]="<b>\"Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds even of children, and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our Ancestors for these great Purposes be encouraged by the Government.&nbsp; For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd.&nbsp; On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1236]="<b>\"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.&nbsp; The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.\"<br> -- George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1237]="<b>\"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.\"<br> -- Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1238]="<b>\"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.&nbsp; There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.\"<br> -- John Adams, letter to Mercy Warren, 16 April 1776</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1239]="<b>\"'Tis well.\"<br> -- George Washington, last words, 14 December 1799</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1240]="<b>\"No compact among men ... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.\"<br> -- George Washington, draft of first Inaugural Address, April 1789</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1241]="<b>\"It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth.&nbsp; There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him.&nbsp; This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, 19 August 1785</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1242]="<b>\"No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.\"<br> -- George Washington, Message to the House of Representatives, 3 December 1793</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1243]="<b>\"There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.&nbsp; To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable.&nbsp; Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence.\"<br> -- James Madison, Speech in Congress, 22 April 1790</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1244]="<b>\"But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 6 September 1789</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1245]="<b>\"The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths.&nbsp; Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.\"<br> -- Benjamin Franklin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, 1749</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1246]="<b>\"To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.\"<br> -- Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, December, 1791</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1247]="<b>\"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.&nbsp; There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong.&nbsp; A love of truth and a veneration of virtue.&nbsp; These amiable passions, are the \"latent spark\"... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?\"<br> -- John Adams, the Novanglus, 1775</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1248]="<b>\"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?&nbsp; That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?&nbsp; Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1249]="<b>\"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.\"<br> -- George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1250]="<b>\"Go on, then, in your generous enterprise with gratitude to Heaven for past success, and confidence of it in the future.&nbsp; For my own part, I ask no greater blessing than to share with you the common danger and common glory ... that these American States may never cease to be free and independent.\"<br> -- Samuel Adams</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1251]="<b>\"It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him.&nbsp; This duty is precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.&nbsp; Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.\"<br> -- James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1252]="<b>\"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.'&nbsp; To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.\"<br> -- Thomas Jefferson (Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 15 February 1791)</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1253]="<b>\"The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.\"<br> -- George Washington, letter to Thomas Nelson, August 20, 1778</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1254]="<b>\"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.\"<br> -- George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1255]="<b>\"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.&nbsp; If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.\"<br> -- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1256]="<b>\"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.\"<br> -- John Adams</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1257]="<b>\"If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others.&nbsp; He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.\"<br> -- Theodore Roosevelt</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1258]="<b>\"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.\"<br> -- W.&nbsp; Somerset Maugham</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1259]="<b>\"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.\"<br> -- Epictetus</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1260]="<b>\"The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred.&nbsp; By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the apparent objects and intent of the Constitution.\"<br> -- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203.107.114/fqd/\" target=\"_new\">Founder's Quote Daily</a>";
quote[1261]="<b>\"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America.&nbsp; Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.\"<br> -- George Washington, letter to Benjamin Lincoln, June 29, 1788</b><br><br><a href=\"http://64.203