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  Q[  1]="Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass "
        +"into excess of slavery."
  A[  1]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato'>Plato</A> &nbsp;(427–347 BC)"

  Q[  2]="The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them "
        +"bounties, donations and benefits."
  A[  2]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch'>Plutarch</A> &nbsp;(AD 46–120)"

  Q[  3]="Where Liberty dwells, there is my country."
  A[  3]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin'>Benjamin Franklin</A> &nbsp;(1706–1790)"

  Q[  4]="Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety "
        +"deserve neither liberty nor safety."
  A[  4]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin'>Benjamin Franklin</A> &nbsp;(1706–1790)"

  Q[  5]="We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best "
        +"Security.&nbsp; It is not possible that any State should long remain free, "
        +"where Virtue is not supremely honored."
  A[  5]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams'>Samuel Adams</A> &nbsp;(1722–1803)"

  Q[  6]="Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition "
        +"to put moral chains upon their own appetites..."
        +"<BR><BR>Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed "
        +"somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."
  A[  6]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke'>Edmund Burke</A> &nbsp;(1729–1797)"

  Q[  7]="Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
  A[  7]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington'>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)"

  Q[  8]="It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural "
        +"liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."
  A[  8]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington'>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)"

  Q[  9]="If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, "
        +"like sheep to the slaughter."
  A[  9]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington'>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)"

  Q[ 10]="The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
  A[ 10]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson'>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)"

  Q[ 11]="When the government fears the people, there is liberty.&nbsp; When the people "
        +"fear the government, there is tyranny."
  A[ 11]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson'>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)"

  Q[ 12]="The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain "
        +"ground."
  A[ 12]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson'>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)"

  Q[ 13]="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."
  A[ 13]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison'>James Madison</A> &nbsp;(1751–1836)"

  Q[ 14]="It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to "
        +"the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
  A[ 14]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison'>James Madison</A> &nbsp;(1751–1836)"

  Q[ 15]="Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.&nbsp; It is the "
        +"argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
  A[ 15]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger'>William Pitt the Younger</A> &nbsp;(1759–1806)"

  Q[ 16]="Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the "
        +"rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."
  A[ 16]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln'>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865)"

  Q[ 17]="The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep "
        +"thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the "
        +"same act as the destroyer of liberty."
  A[ 17]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln'>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865)"

  Q[ 18]="People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which "
        +"they avoid."
  A[ 18]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soren_Kierkegaard'>Soren Kierkegaard</A> &nbsp;(1813–1855)"

  Q[ 19]="Liberty never came from government.&nbsp; The history of liberty is a history "
        +"of resistance.&nbsp; The history of liberty is a history of limitations of "
        +"governmental power, not the increase of it."
  A[ 19]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson'>Woodrow Wilson</A> &nbsp;(1856–1924)<BR>Speech in New York, September 9, 1912"

  Q[ 20]="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."
  A[ 20]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Maugham'>Somerset Maugham</A> &nbsp;(1874–1965)"

  Q[ 21]="The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's "
        +"time defending scoundrels.&nbsp; For it is against scoundrels that oppressive "
        +"laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is "
        +"to be stopped at all."
  A[ 21]="<A HREF='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mencken'>Henry Mencken</A> &nbsp;(1880–1956)"

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