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quotes[0]='The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms . . . <i>-Samuel Adams</i>'

quotes[1]='That which the unaided intellect of man could not compass, the spirit of God has granted to human exertions, for God is wont to hear the prayers of His servants who love His precepts even to the performance of apparent impossibilities. Therefore, let the king and queen, our princes and their most happy kingdoms, and all the other provinces of Christendom, render thanks to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. <i>-Christopher Columbus (letter written in 1493)</i>'

quotes[2]='They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.<i>-Benjamin Franklin</i>'

quotes[3]='The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.<i>-George Washington</i>'

quotes[4]='The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.<i>-Patrick Henry</i>'

quotes[5]='The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. <i>-Thomas Jefferson</i>'

quotes[6]='No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government. <i>-Thomas Jefferson</i>'

quotes[7]='Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun. <i>-Patrick Henry</i>'

quotes[8]='In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. <i>-Mark Twain</i>'

quotes[9]='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. <i>-Samuel Adams</i>'

quotes[10]='Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. <i>-George Washington</i>'

quotes[11]='God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.<i>-Daniel Webster</i>'

quotes[12]='If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. <i>-Thomas Jefferson</i>'

quotes[13]='Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. <i>-William Penn</i>'

quotes[14]='If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom... go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels nor arms. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.  <i>-Samuel Adams</i>'

quotes[15] ='There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots. -- Henry David Thoreau'

quotes[16] ='Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of  other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -  James Madison'

quotes[17] ='Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each successive wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. Justice Hugo Black'

quotes[18] ='You ought to weigh everything that is proposed by government...against the loss of personal freedom. Ronald Reagan'

quotes[19] ='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. - Thomas Jefferson'

quotes[20] ='The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. Edmund Burke'

quotes[21] ='Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are ruined.  Patrick Henry'

quotes[22]='O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me. <i>- Benjamin Franklin, his daily prayer</i>'

quotes[23]='I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter. <i>- Benjamin Franklin, (Autobiography)</i>'


quotes[24] ='One man with courage is a majority. --Thomas Jefferson '

quotes[25] ='What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms. --Thomas Jefferson'

quotes[26] ='Do not interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.-Abraham Lincoln '

quotes[27] ='WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FEARS THE PEOPLE THERE IS LIBERTY, WHEN THE PEOPLE FEAR THE GOVERNMENT THERE IS TYRANNY.  -Thomas Jefferson'

quotes[28]='We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. <i>-James Madison</i>'

quotes[29]='The basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I do not think we emphasize that enough these days. If we do not have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a...government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State! <i>- Harry S. Truman</i>'

quotes[30] ='A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'

quotes[31] ='It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest. -Abraham Lincoln'

quotes[32]='Whereas 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 favor .... <i>-George Washington (National Day of Thanksgiving Proclamation)</i>'

quotes[33]='It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. <i>-Patrick Henry</i>'

quotes[34]='Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. <i>-William Penn</i>'

quotes[35]='Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. <i>-Benjamin Franklin</i>'

quotes[36]='Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.. <i>-William Penn, Personal Seal of Thomas Jefferson </i>'

quotes[37]='God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.<i>-Daniel Webster</i>'

quotes[38]='The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. <i>-John Quincy Adams</i>'

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