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quote[1] = "...to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
--George Mason--";
quote[2] = "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
Thomas Paine ";
quote[3] = "It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
John Adams";
quote[4] = "The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.
John Adams ";
quote[5] = "Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.
John Hancock ";
quote[6] = "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials.
--George Mason--";
quote[7] = "A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
Thomas Paine";
quote[8] = "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see
Benjamin Franklin ";
quote[9] = "A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy — A republic,replied the Doctor, if you can keep it. ";
quote[10] = "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine";
quote[11] = "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin ";
quote[12] = "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Patrick Henry ";
quote[13] = "It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
Patrick Henry ";
quote[14] = "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson";
quote[15] = "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams ";
quote[16] = "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
--John Adams--";
quote[17] = "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
--John Marshall--";
quote[18] = "Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
--Declaration of Independence,--";
quote[19] = "In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.
--Samuel Adams--";
quote[20] = "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
---Benjamin Franklin --";
quote[21] = "A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.
--Alexander Hamilton--- ";
quote[22] = "A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
---Thomas Jefferson-- ";
quote[23] = "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
--James Madison-- ";
quote[24] = "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
--Thomas Paine-- ";
quote[25] = "A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
--George Washington--";
quote[26] = "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
--Alexander Hamilton--";
quote[27] = "[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
--James Madison---";
quote[28] = "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
--Thomas Jefferson--";
quote[29] = "The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not be infringed. 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....
--James Madison--";
quote[30] = "The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone.
--James Madison--";
quote[31] = "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
--Alexander Hamilton--";