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  Q[  1]='<B>An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to '
        +'act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to '
        +'grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their '
        +'skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault '
        +'with everything.&nbsp; <DIV ALIGN=Right>(Address of the Duke of Shao to King '
        +'Li-Wang, ca 845 B.C.)</DIV>'
  A[  1]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant>Will Durant</A> &nbsp;(1885–1981)<BR>"<A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization>The Story of Civilization</A>" 1&nbsp;(11), Our Oriental Heritage, 1935'

  Q[  2]='<B>Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass '
        +'into excess of slavery.'
  A[  2]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato>Plato</A> &nbsp;(427–347 BC)'

  Q[  3]='<B>Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.'
  A[  3]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallust>Sallust</A> &nbsp;(86–34 BC)'

  Q[  4]='<B>The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them '
        +'bounties, donations and benefits.'
  A[  4]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch>Plutarch</A> &nbsp;(AD 46–120)'

  Q[  5]='<B>Where Liberty dwells, there is my country.'
  A[  5]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin>Benjamin Franklin</A> &nbsp;(1706–1790)'

  Q[  6]='<B>Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety '
        +'deserve neither liberty nor safety.'
  A[  6]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin>Benjamin Franklin</A> &nbsp;(1706–1790)'

  Q[  7]='<B>It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.'
  A[  7]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume>David Hume</A> &nbsp;(1711–1776)'

  Q[  8]='<B>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[  8]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams>Samuel Adams</A> &nbsp;(1722–1803)'

  Q[  9]='<B>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[  9]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke>Edmund Burke</A> &nbsp;(1729–1797)'

  Q[ 10]='<B>Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.'
  A[ 10]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)'

  Q[ 11]='<B>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[ 11]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)'

  Q[ 12]='<B>If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, '
        +'like sheep to the slaughter.'
  A[ 12]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)'

  Q[ 13]='<B>Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to '
        +'licentiousness.'
  A[ 13]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)'

  Q[ 14]='<B>The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.'
  A[ 14]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[ 15]='<B>When the government fears the people, there is liberty.&nbsp; When the people '
        +'fear the government, there is tyranny.'
  A[ 15]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[ 16]='<B>Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...&nbsp; They are the only '
        +'sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.'
  A[ 16]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[ 17]='<B>The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain '
        +'ground.'
  A[ 17]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[ 18]='<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.'
  A[ 18]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison>James Madison</A> &nbsp;(1751–1836)'

  Q[ 19]='<B>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[ 19]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison>James Madison</A> &nbsp;(1751–1836)'

  Q[ 20]='<B>Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.&nbsp; It is the '
        +'argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.'
  A[ 20]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger>William Pitt the Younger</A> &nbsp;(1759–1806)'

  Q[ 21]='<B>Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the '
        +'rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.'
  A[ 21]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865)'

  Q[ 22]='<B>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[ 22]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865)'

  Q[ 23]='<B>People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which '
        +'they avoid.'
  A[ 23]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soren_Kierkegaard>Soren Kierkegaard</A> &nbsp;(1813–1855)'

  Q[ 24]='<B>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[ 24]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson>Woodrow Wilson</A> &nbsp;(1856–1924)<BR>Speech in New York, September 9, 1912'

  Q[ 25]='<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.'
  A[ 25]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Maugham>Somerset Maugham</A> &nbsp;(1874–1965)'

  Q[ 26]='<B>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[ 26]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mencken>Henry Mencken</A> &nbsp;(1880–1956)'

  Q[ 27]='<B>Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark '
        +'of civilization.'
  A[ 27]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant>Will Durant</A> &nbsp;(1885–1981)<BR>"<A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization>The Story of Civilization</A>" 1&nbsp;(11), Our Oriental Heritage, 1935'

  Q[ 28]='<B>In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order.&nbsp; I have '
        +'made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.'
  A[ 28]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant>Will Durant</A> &nbsp;(1885–1981)'

  Q[ 29]='<B>Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.'
  A[ 29]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant>Will Durant</A> &nbsp;(1885–1981)'

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