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Alan Ditmore'); } // 1 if (ranNum == 1){document.write('"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one\'s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded."

Ralph Waldo Emerson'); } // 2 if (ranNum == 2){document.write('"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible."

Jomo Kenyatta'); } // 3 if (ranNum == 3){document.write('"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw'); } // 4 if (ranNum == 4){document.write('"Next year (I hope) in a democratic country."

Andy Silver'); } // 5 if (ranNum == 5){document.write('"The critical thinking and precision of science began to really affect my ability to just believe something without any tangible evidence."

Salvador Cordova, a major Intelligent Design proponent quoted in the journal Nature'); } // 6 if (ranNum == 6){document.write('"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Donald Rumsfeld'); } // 7 if (ranNum == 7){document.write('"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn'); } // 8 if (ranNum == 8){document.write('"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

George Washington'); } // 9 if (ranNum == 9){document.write('"The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault."

Major Ralph Peters, US Military'); } // 10 if (ranNum == 10){document.write('"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official..."

Theodore Roosevelt'); } // 11 if (ranNum == 11){document.write('"The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all."

Tacitus'); } // 12 if (ranNum == 12){document.write('"I\'m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

George McGovern'); } // 13 if (ranNum == 13){document.write('"Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government."

Hugo Black, US Supreme Court Justice'); } // 14 if (ranNum == 14){document.write('"It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village."

Voltaire'); } // 15 if (ranNum == 15){document.write('"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."

Robert Lynd'); } // 16 if (ranNum == 16){document.write('"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."

Albert Camus'); } // 17 if (ranNum == 17){document.write('"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."

Edward R. Murrow'); } // 18 if (ranNum == 18){document.write('"The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions."

Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps'); } // 19 if (ranNum == 19){document.write('"It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."

Theodore Roosevelt'); } // 20 if (ranNum == 20){document.write('"The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

Sir Winston Churchill'); } // 21 if (ranNum == 21){document.write('"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people..."

Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice'); } // 22 if (ranNum == 22){document.write('"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."

Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism'); } // 23 if (ranNum == 23){document.write('"Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders."

Marquis de Sade'); } // 24 if (ranNum == 24){document.write('"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn'); } // 25 if (ranNum == 25){document.write('"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."

George Orwell'); } // 26 if (ranNum == 26){document.write('"Peace is constructed, not fought for."

Brent Davis'); } // 27 if (ranNum == 27){document.write('"In this war – as in others – I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead."

Butler Shaffer'); } // 28 if (ranNum == 28){document.write('"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire'); } // 29 if (ranNum == 29){document.write('"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice."

Lord Acton'); } // 30 if (ranNum == 30){document.write('"...Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security..."

Alfred Adler'); } // 31 if (ranNum == 31){document.write('"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead'); } // 32 if (ranNum == 32){document.write('"It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them."

Alfred Adler'); } // 33 if (ranNum == 33){document.write('"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

Thomas Jefferson'); } // 34 if (ranNum == 34){document.write('"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

Karl Von Clausewitz'); } // 35 if (ranNum == 35){document.write('"Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?"

Marquis de Sade'); } // 36 if (ranNum == 36){document.write('"The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated."

William Ellery Channing'); } // 37 if (ranNum == 37){document.write('"The voice of protest...is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum...is bidding all men...obey in silence the tyrannous word of command."

Charles Eliot Norton'); } // 38 if (ranNum == 38){document.write('"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

Dwight D. Eisenhower'); } // 39 if (ranNum == 39){document.write('"Respect for the rights of others means peace."

Benito Juárez'); } // 40 if (ranNum == 40){document.write('"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Edward Abbey'); } // 41 if (ranNum == 41){document.write('"War remains the decisive human failure."

John Kenneth Galbraith'); } // 42 if (ranNum == 42){document.write('"That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

Theodore Roosevelt'); } // 43 if (ranNum == 43){document.write('"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive."

Thomas Jefferson'); } // 44 if (ranNum == 44){document.write('"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

Albert Camus'); } // 45 if (ranNum == 45){document.write('"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

Albert Einstein'); } // 46 if (ranNum == 46){document.write('"All mankind...being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

John Locke'); } // 47 if (ranNum == 47){document.write('"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."

Agatha Christie'); } // 48 if (ranNum == 48){document.write('"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."

Voltaire'); } // 49 if (ranNum == 49){document.write('"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war."

Plato'); } // 50 if (ranNum == 50){document.write('"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights."

General Smedley Butler'); } // 51 if (ranNum == 51){document.write('"Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to the inexperienced)."

Erasmus, the 16th-century scholar'); } // 52 if (ranNum == 52){document.write('"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Dwight D. Eisenhower'); } // 53 if (ranNum == 53){document.write('"Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat."

General Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnam)'); } // 54 if (ranNum == 54){document.write('"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...is morally treasonable to the American public."

Theodore Roosevelt'); } // 55 if (ranNum == 55){document.write('"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

Thomas Jefferson'); } // 56 if (ranNum == 56){document.write('"Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

George Orwell'); } // 57 if (ranNum == 57){document.write('"War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."

Alexander Berkman'); } // 58 if (ranNum == 58){document.write('"Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

George W. Bush'); } // 59 if (ranNum == 59){document.write('"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain."

Marquis de Sade'); } // 60 if (ranNum == 60){document.write('"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

Mahatma Gandhi'); } // 61 if (ranNum == 61){document.write('"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."

George Orwell'); } // 62 if (ranNum == 62){document.write('"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."

Albert Camus'); } // 63 if (ranNum == 63){document.write('"...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."

Theodore Roosevelt'); } // 64 if (ranNum == 64){document.write('"Emphasis on military prowess is an indication of philosophical poverty."

Henk Middelraad'); } // 65 if (ranNum == 65){document.write('"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

James Baldwin'); } // 66 if (ranNum == 66){document.write('"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

Aesop'); } // 67 if (ranNum == 67){document.write('"War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing..."

Lewis Mumford '); } // 68 if (ranNum == 68){document.write('"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."

Sir Francis Bacon'); } // 69 if (ranNum == 69){document.write('"We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for."

James Carroll'); } // 70 if (ranNum == 70){document.write('"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

Herman Goering'); } // 71 if (ranNum == 71){document.write('"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

Thomas Jefferson'); } // 72 if (ranNum == 72){document.write('"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."

Plato'); } // 73 if (ranNum == 73){document.write('"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

Louis D. Brandeis'); } // 74 if (ranNum == 74){document.write('"Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew."

John Greenleaf Whittier'); } // 75 if (ranNum == 75){document.write('"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance."

Goethe'); } // 76 if (ranNum == 76){document.write('"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."

Dwight D. Eisenhower'); } // 77 if (ranNum == 77){document.write('"War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed."

John Cory'); } // 78 if (ranNum == 78){document.write('"I\'m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."

Jim Garrison'); } // 79 if (ranNum == 79){document.write('"The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force."

Norman Cousins'); } // 80 if (ranNum == 80){document.write('"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people..."

Leo Tolstoy'); } // 81 if (ranNum == 81){document.write('"\'Emergencies\' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."

Friedrich August von Hayek'); } // 82 if (ranNum == 82){document.write('"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi'); } // 83 if (ranNum == 83){document.write('"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."

John F. Kennedy'); } // 84 if (ranNum == 84){document.write('"All wars are fought for money."

Socrates'); } // 85 if (ranNum == 85){document.write('"Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire."

Richard Maybury'); } // 86 if (ranNum == 86){document.write('"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

George Washington'); } // 87 if (ranNum == 87){document.write('"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Thomas Mann'); } // 88 if (ranNum == 88){document.write('"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."

General Douglas MacArthur'); } // 89 if (ranNum == 89){document.write('"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside ourselves."

Albert Camus'); } // 90 if (ranNum == 90){document.write('"Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?"

Blaise Pascal'); } // 91 if (ranNum == 91){document.write('"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Albert Einstein'); } // 92 if (ranNum == 92){document.write('"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men\'s lives should not pay with their own."

H. G. Wells'); } // 93 if (ranNum == 93){document.write('"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Edmund Burke'); } // 94 if (ranNum == 94){document.write('First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

~Pastor Martin Niemöller'); } // 95 if (ranNum == 95){document.write('"But let\'s not forget the country we have become. Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, a secret gulag that stretches from Europe to the Far East, enhanced interrogation techniques,a vice president who argues that the CIA should be allowed to use torture, no one above the rank of sergeant tried for the abuse and murder of prisoners, and the assertion that because we are at war the president has the power to suspend indefinitely the rights of anyone declared an enemy of the state."

Dennis Jett, former member of the Board of Visitors at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (otherwise known as the School of the Americas)'); } // 96 if (ranNum == 96){document.write('"For the love of money is the root of all evil..."

Timothy 6:10'); } // 97 if (ranNum == 97){document.write('"This is the most corrupt Congress in history. How can it be that we\'re about to cut student loans, Medicare, and Medicaid, and then turn around and provide even more tax breaks to special interests and multimillionaires? Have we no sense of decency? Have we no sense of shame?"

US Senator Harry Reid'); } // 98 if (ranNum == 98){document.write('"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding."

Upton Sinclair'); } // 99 if (ranNum == 99){document.write('"There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government."

Thomas Jefferson'); } // 100 if (ranNum == 100){document.write('"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Frederick Douglass'); } // 101 if (ranNum == 101){document.write('"As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight-- lest we become victims of the darkness."

Justice William O. Douglas'); } // 102 if (ranNum == 102){document.write('"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd US president'); } // 103 if (ranNum == 103){document.write('"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."

Bertrand Russell'); } // 104 if (ranNum == 104){document.write('"I know not what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein'); } // 105 if (ranNum == 105){document.write('"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence."

Charles A. Beard'); } // 106 if (ranNum == 106){document.write('"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

Dwight Eisenhower'); } // 107 if (ranNum == 107){document.write('"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they\'ve told you what it is you want to hear."

Alan Coren'); } // 108 if (ranNum == 108){document.write('"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

George Orwell'); } // 109 if (ranNum == 109){document.write('"When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."

Ralph Waldo Emerson'); } // 110 if (ranNum == 110){document.write('"...but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless."

Abraham Lincoln, 1864'); } // 111 if (ranNum == 111){document.write('"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."

Plato, 347 B.C.'); } // 112 if (ranNum == 112){document.write('"The most serious threat to democracy is the notion that it has already been achieved."

Unknown'); } // 113 if (ranNum == 113){document.write('"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Isaac Asimov'); } // 114 if (ranNum == 114){document.write('"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Dom Helda Camara'); } // 115 if (ranNum == 115){document.write('"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"

Benjamin Franklin'); } // 116 if (ranNum == 116){document.write('"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."

Douglas MacArthur'); } // 117 if (ranNum == 117){document.write('"...the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government....for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."

Martin Luther King, Jr.'); } // 118 if (ranNum == 118){document.write('"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 47'); } // 120 if (ranNum == 119){document.write('"The most effectual guard which has yet been discovered against the abuse of power, is the division of it. It is our happiness to have a constitution which contains within it a sufficient limitation to the power granted by it, and also a proper division of that power. But no constitution affords any real security to liberty unless it is considered as sacred and preserved inviolate; because that security can only arise from an actual and not from a nominal limitation and division of power."

George Nicholas'); } // 121 if (ranNum == 120){document.write('"In America, the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other."

Thomas Paine'); } // 122 if (ranNum == 121){document.write('"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage\'s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead'); } // 119 if (ranNum == 122){document.write('"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism."

Adlai Stevenson\'s \'Nature of Patriotism\' Speech, 1952'); } // 123 if (ranNum == 123){document.write('"We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power-to walk with it in serenity and wisdom, with self-respect and the respect to all mankind; a patriotism that puts country ahead of self; a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. The dedication of a lifetime-these are words that are easy to utter, but this is a mighty assignment. For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."

Adlai Stevenson\'s \'Nature of Patriotism\' Speech, 1952'); } // 124 if (ranNum == 124){document.write('"I know nothing about evolution. Neither do I care anything about it. To be very frank with you, gentlemen of this House, I don\'t see but one good feature in this thing, and that is that it will gratify the monkeys to know they are absolved from all responsibility for the conduct of the human race."

state Rep. Sam Ervin Jr. in response to an anti-evolution bill introduced in the North Carolina legislature in 1925'); } // 125 if (ranNum == 125){document.write('"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."

Justice William O. Douglas'); } // 126 if (ranNum == 126){document.write('"The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 127 if (ranNum == 127){document.write('"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

Giovanni Gentile'); } // 128 if (ranNum == 128){document.write('"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. ... They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 129 if (ranNum == 129){document.write('"Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after \'the present unpleasantness\' ceases."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 130 if (ranNum == 130){document.write('"Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise [companies]. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 131 if (ranNum == 131){document.write('"The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination..."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 132 if (ranNum == 132){document.write('"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 133 if (ranNum == 133){document.write('"They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 134 if (ranNum == 134){document.write('"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. ... Democracy, to crush fascism internally, must... develop the ability to keep people fully employed and at the same time balance the budget. It must put human beings first and dollars second. It must appeal to reason and decency and not to violence and deceit. We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 135 if (ranNum == 135){document.write('"...out of this modern civilization, economic royalists [have] carved new dynasties.... It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction.... And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man...."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 136 if (ranNum == 136){document.write('"These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!"

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 137 if (ranNum == 137){document.write('"In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for."

United States Vice President Henry Wallace'); } // 138 if (ranNum == 138){document.write('"The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace."

Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism'); } // 139 if (ranNum == 139){document.write('"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

President Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, November 8, 1954'); } // 140 if (ranNum == 140){document.write('"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."

Samuel P. Huntington'); } // 141 if (ranNum == 141){document.write('"Debating imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape."

Arundhati Roy'); } // 142 if (ranNum == 142){document.write('"When we vote, we choose which political party we would like to invest the coercive, repressive powers of the state in."

Arundhati Roy'); } // 143 if (ranNum == 143){document.write('"When we vote, we choose which political party we would like to invest the coercive, repressive powers of the state in."

Arundhati Roy'); } // 144 if (ranNum == 144){document.write('"Of course the people don\'t want war. But after all, it\'s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it\'s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it\'s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials'); } // 145 if (ranNum == 145){document.write('"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.”

John Pierpont Morgan '); } // 146 if (ranNum == 146){document.write('We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine right of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards...“a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.”

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president'); } // 147 if (ranNum == 147){document.write('"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)'); } // 148 if (ranNum == 148){document.write('"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather a vigilant and tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people\'s minds."

Samuel Adams'); } // 149 if (ranNum == 149){document.write('"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

Albert Einstein'); } // 150 if (ranNum == 150){document.write('"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."

Dante Alighieri'); } // 151 if (ranNum == 151){document.write('"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

Josef Stalin'); } // 152 if (ranNum == 152){document.write('"Be it thy policy to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels."

\'King Lear\' by William Shakespeare'); } // 153 if (ranNum == 153){document.write('"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Mahatma Ghandi'); } // 154 if (ranNum == 154){document.write('"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

Samuel Adams'); } // 155 if (ranNum == 155){document.write('"If a nation or individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose it\'s freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too."

W. Somerset Maugham'); } // 156 if (ranNum == 156){document.write('“The real owners [are] the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, the judges. And they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear. They spend billions every year lobbying to get what they want. Well we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everyone else. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people. That’s against their interests. They want obedient workers.”

George Carlin'); } // 157 if (ranNum == 157){document.write('"...it wasn\'t until the most recent revelations that President Bush directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) -- and argued that, as Commander in Chief, he had the right in the interests of national security to override our country\'s laws -- that I felt the same sinking feeling in my stomach as I did during Watergate. . . . A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law -- and repeatedly violates the law -- thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors."

Elizabeth Holtzman'); } // 158 if (ranNum == 158){document.write('“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labor, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral color when committed by ‘our’ side.… The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

George Orwell'); } // 159 if (ranNum == 159){document.write('"What good fortune for those in power that the people do not think."

Adolf Hitler'); } // 160 if (ranNum == 160){document.write('"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832'); } // 161 if (ranNum == 161){document.write('"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

Edward R. Murrow'); } // 162 if (ranNum == 163){document.write('"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called \'the insolence of elected persons\' -- in a word, free men."

Gerald W. Johnson - (1890-1980)'); } // 163 if (ranNum == 164){document.write('"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all -- security, comfort, and freedom. When ... the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."

Sir Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)'); } // 164 if (ranNum == 165){document.write('"To sin by silence when they shouldprotest makes cowards of men."

-Abraham Lincoln'); } // 165 }