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authors = new Array(14);
quotes[0] = "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.";
authors[0] = "Thomas Jefferson";
quotes[1] = "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.";
authors[1] = "James Madison";
quotes[2] = "Fear is the foundation of most governments.";
authors[2] = "John Adams";
quotes[3] = "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.";
authors[3] = "George Washington";
quotes[4] = "Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!";
authors[4] = "Thomas Jefferson";
quotes[5] = "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds";
authors[5] = "Samuel Adams";
quotes[6] = "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.";
authors[6] = "James Madison";
quotes[7] = "One man with courage is a majority.";
authors[7] = "Thomas Jefferson";
quotes[8] = "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.";
authors[8] = "Thomas Jefferson";
quotes[9] = "The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.";
authors[9] = "John Adams";
quotes[10] = "Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.";
authors[10] = "Thomas Jefferson";
quotes[11] = "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.";
authors[11] = "Benjamin Franklin";
quotes[12] = "When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.";
authors[12] = "Thomas Jefferson";
quotes[13] = "Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.";
authors[13] = "Samuel Adams";


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