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  Q[  1]='<B>If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better '
        +'than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.&nbsp; We ask '
        +'not your counsels or your arms.&nbsp; Crouch down and lick the hands which '
        +'feed you.&nbsp; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget '
        +'that you were our countrymen.'
  A[  1]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams>Samuel Adams</A> &nbsp;(1722–1803)'

  Q[  2]='<B>It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that '
        +'every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a '
        +'proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense '
        +'of it.'
  A[  2]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)'

  Q[  3]='<B>My ardent desire is...&nbsp; to keep the United States free from political '
        +'connexions with every other Country.&nbsp; To see that they may be independent '
        +'of all, and under the influence of none.'
  A[  3]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington>George Washington</A> &nbsp;(1732–1799)<BR>Letter, 1795'

  Q[  4]='<B>A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, '
        +'and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.'
  A[  4]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[  5]='<B>The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither '
        +'restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.'
  A[  5]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[  6]='<B>I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government '
        +'from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of '
        +'them.'
  A[  6]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[  7]='<B>What is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?&nbsp; A wise and '
        +'frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which '
        +'shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and '
        +'improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has '
        +'earned.'
  A[  7]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[  8]='<B>Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless...&nbsp; the time for '
        +'fixing every essential right on a legal basis is [now] while our rulers are '
        +'honest, and ourselves united.&nbsp; From the conclusion of this war we shall '
        +'be going downhill.&nbsp; It will not then be necessary to resort every moment '
        +'to the people for support.&nbsp; They will be forgotten, therefore, and their '
        +'rights disregarded.&nbsp; They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty '
        +'of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for '
        +'their rights.&nbsp; The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at '
        +'the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and '
        +'heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.'
  A[  8]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)<BR><A HREF="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html">Notes on the State of Virginia</A>, <BR><A HREF="http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefVirg.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=17&division=div1">Query 17</A>, 1781–1782'

  Q[  9]='<B>If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their '
        +'currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and '
        +'corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all '
        +'property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers '
        +'conquered.&nbsp; The issuing power of money should be taken from banks and '
        +'restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs.&nbsp; I sincerely '
        +'believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more '
        +'dangerous to liberty than standing armies.'
  A[  9]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)'

  Q[ 10]='<B>I know too that it is a maxim with us, and I think it a wise one, not to '
        +'entangle ourselves with the affairs of Europe.'
  A[ 10]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826)<BR>Letter, December 21, 1787'

  Q[ 11]='<B>In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power.&nbsp; In '
        +'America...&nbsp; charters of power are granted by Liberty.'
  A[ 11]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison>James Madison</A> &nbsp;(1751–1836)<BR>"Charters", January 8, 1792'

  Q[ 12]='<B>Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of '
        +'authority.&nbsp; It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made '
        +'to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.&nbsp; There are '
        +'men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern.&nbsp; They '
        +'promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.'
  A[ 12]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster>Noah Webster</A> &nbsp;(1758–1843)'

  Q[ 13]='<B>The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe '
        +'the people with their own money.'
  A[ 13]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville>Alexis de Tocqueville</A> &nbsp;(1805–1859)'

  Q[ 14]='<B>Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery '
        +'than unequal in freedom.'
  A[ 14]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville>Alexis de Tocqueville</A> &nbsp;(1805–1859)'

  Q[ 15]='<B>The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought '
        +'itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men, and to '
        +'relieve their distress.'
        +'<BR><BR>But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the '
        +'men who serve it, and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the '
        +'public.'
  A[ 15]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville>Alexis de Tocqueville</A> &nbsp;(1805–1859), "<A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America>Democracy in America</A>", 1834'

  Q[ 16]='<B>America will never be destroyed from the outside.&nbsp; If we falter and lose '
        +'our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.'
  A[ 16]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865)'

  Q[ 17]='<B>Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the '
        +'United States as our fathers made it, inviolable.&nbsp; The people of the '
        +'United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to '
        +'overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the '
        +'Constitution.'
  A[ 17]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865)'

  Q[ 18]='<B>Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race '
        +'and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be '
        +'placed in an inferior position.&nbsp; Let us discard all these things, and '
        +'unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up '
        +'declaring that all men are created equal.'
  A[ 18]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865), Address to Chicago Abolitionists &nbsp;(10 July 1858)'

  Q[ 19]='<B>America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly '
        +'from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.'
  A[ 19]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Clemenceau>Georges Clemenceau</A> &nbsp;(1841–1929)'

  Q[ 20]='<B>This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make '
        +'it a good place for all of us to live in.'
  A[ 20]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>Theodore Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1858–1919)'

  Q[ 21]='<B>In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in '
        +'good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be '
        +'treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to '
        +'discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or '
        +'origin.&nbsp; But this is predicated upon the person\'s becoming in every facet '
        +'an American, and nothing but an American...&nbsp; There can be no divided '
        +'allegiance here.&nbsp; Any man who says he is an American, but something else '
        +'also, isn\'t an American at all.&nbsp; We have room for but one flag, the '
        +'American flag...&nbsp; We have room for but one language here, and that is the '
        +'English language...&nbsp; And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that '
        +'is a loyalty to the American people.'
  A[ 21]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>Theodore Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1858–1919)'

  Q[ 22]='<B>Americans always try to do the right thing after they\'ve tried everything '
        +'else.'
  A[ 22]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill>Winston Churchill</A> &nbsp;(1874–1965)'

  Q[ 23]='<B>The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those '
        +'who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too '
        +'little.'
  A[ 23]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1882–1945), 32-nd President &nbsp;(1933–1945)'

  Q[ 24]='<B>Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; '
        +'emotionally I know she is better than every other country.'
  A[ 24]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis>Sinclair Lewis</A> &nbsp;(1885–1951)'

  Q[ 25]='<B>This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of '
        +'the brave.'
  A[ 25]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Davis>Elmer Davis</A> &nbsp;(1890–1958)'

  Q[ 26]='<B>Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or '
        +'government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is '
        +'infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there '
        +'for a reason and has something to offer.'
  A[ 26]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>Ronald Reagan</A> &nbsp;(1911–2004)'

  Q[ 27]='<B>A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won\'t '
        +'cross the street to vote in a national election.'
  A[ 27]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Vaughan>Bill Vaughan</A> &nbsp;(1915–1977)'

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