var quote = new Array(154);
var author = new Array(154);
var years = new Array(154);
var source = new Array(154);
// Douglas Adams
quote[0] = "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.";
author[0] = "Douglas Adams";
source[0] = "English humorist & science fiction novelist, from his book Mostly Harmless";
years[0] = "11 Mar 1952 - 11 May 2001";
quote[1] = "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.";
author[1] = "Douglas Adams";
source[1] = "English humorist & science fiction novelist, from his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy";
years[1] = "11 Mar 1952 - 11 May 2001";
quote[2] = "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.";
author[2] = "Douglas Adams";
source[2] = "English humorist & science fiction novelist, from his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy";
years[2] = "11 Mar 1952 - 11 May 2001";
quote[3] = "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.";
author[3] = "Douglas Adams";
source[3] = "English humorist & science fiction novelist, from his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy";
years[3] = "11 Mar 1952 - 11 May 2001";
quote[4] = "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.";
author[4] = "Douglas Adams";
source[4] = "English humorist & science fiction novelist, from his book Mostly Harmless";
years[4] = "11 Mar 1952 - 11 May 2001";
quote[5] = "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.";
author[5] = "Douglas Adams";
source[5] = "English humorist & science fiction novelist, from his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy";
years[5] = "11 Mar 1952 - 11 May 2001";
quote[6] = "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.";
author[6] = "Douglas Adams";
source[6] = "English humorist & science fiction novelist";
years[6] = "11 Mar 1952 - 11 May 2001";
quote[7] = "I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.";
author[7] = "Douglas Adams";
source[7] = "English humorist & science fiction novelist";
years[8] = "11 Mar 1952 - 11 May 2001";
// Muhammad Ali
quote[8] = "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.";
author[8] = "Muhammad Ali";
source[8] = "";
years[8] = "17 Jan 1942 - ";
quote[9] = "I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.";
author[9] = "Muhammad Ali";
source[9] = "";
years[9] = "17 Jan 1942 - ";
quote[10] = "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark.";
author[10] = "Muhammad Ali";
source[10] = "";
years[10] = "17 Jan 1942 - ";
quote[11] = "I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.";
author[11] = "Muhammad Ali";
source[11] = "";
years[11] = "17 Jan 1942 - ";
// Woody Allen
quote[12] = "Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.";
author[12] = "Woody Allen";
source[12] = "Writer, actor and director";
years[12] = "01 Dec 1935 - ";
quote[13] = "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's a pretty good empty experience.";
author[13] = "Woody Allen";
source[13] = "Writer, actor and director";
years[13] = "01 Dec 1935 - ";
quote[14] = "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.";
author[14] = "Woody Allen";
source[14] = "Writer, actor and director";
years[14] = "01 Dec 1935 - ";
/* American Bar Association */
quote[15] = "All through human history, tyrannies have tried to enforce obedience by prohibiting disrespect for the symbols of their power. The swastika is only one example of many in recent history.";
author[15] = "American Bar Association task force on flag burning";
source[15] = "";
years[15] = "";
// Anonymous
quote[16] = "Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.";
author[16] = "Anonymous";
source[16] = "";
years[16] = "";
quote[17] = "Minds, like parachutes, only work when open.";
author[17] = "Anonymous";
source[17] = "";
years[17] = "";
quote[18] = "Life isn't about the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.";
author[18] = "Anonymous";
source[18] = "";
years[18] = "";
quote[19] = "If you are what you eat, then I'm fast, cheap and easy.";
author[19] = "Anonymous";
source[19] = "";
years[19] = "";
quote[20] = "I became a policeman because I wanted to be in a business where the customer is always wrong.";
author[20] = "Anonymous";
source[20] = "";
years[20] = "";
quote[21] = "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person is like expecting a bull to not charge you because you're a vegetarian.";
author[21] = "Anonymous";
source[21] = "";
years[21] = "";
quote[22] = "186,000 miles per second: It's not just a good idea, it's the law!";
author[22] = "Anonymous";
source[22] = "";
years[22] = "";
// Archimedes
quote[23] = "Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world.";
author[23] = "Archimedes";
source[23] = "Greek inventor, mathematician, & physicist";
years[23] = "";
// Aristotle
quote[24] = "No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.";
author[24] = "Aristotle";
source[24] = "Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist";
years[24] = "";
quote[25] = "He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.";
author[25] = "Aristotle";
source[25] = "Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist";
years[25] = "";
quote[26] = "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.";
author[26] = "Aristotle";
source[26] = "Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist";
years[26] = "";
quote[27] = "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.";
author[27] = "Aristotle";
source[27] = "Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist";
years[27] = "";
quote[28] = "The whole is more than the sum of its parts.";
author[28] = "Aristotle";
source[28] = "Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist, Metaphysica";
years[28] = "";
quote[29] = "We make war that we may live in peace.";
author[29] = "Aristotle";
source[29] = "Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 10, ch. 7, sct. 1177b";
years[29] = "";
// Isaac Asimov
quote[30] = "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.";
author[30] = "Isaac Asimov";
source[30] = "Science Fiction novelist & scholar";
years[30] = "02 Jan 1920 - 06 Apr 1992";
quote[31] = "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.";
author[31] = "Isaac Asimov";
source[31] = "Science Fiction novelist & scholar";
years[31] = "02 Jan 1920 - 06 Apr 1992";
quote[32] = "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.";
author[32] = "Isaac Asimov";
source[32] = "Science Fiction novelist & scholar, Foundation";
years[32] = "02 Jan 1920 - 06 Apr 1992";
quote[33] = "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.";
author[33] = "Isaac Asimov";
source[33] = "Science Fiction novelist & scholar";
years[33] = "02 Jan 1920 - 06 Apr 1992";
quote[34] = "What would I do if I had only six months left to live? I'd type faster.";
author[34] = "Isaac Asimov";
source[34] = "Science Fiction novelist & scholar";
years[34] = "02 Jan 1920 - 06 Apr 1992";
quote[35] = "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.";
author[35] = "Isaac Asimov";
source[35] = "Science Fiction novelist & scholar";
years[35] = "02 Jan 1920 - 06 Apr 1992";
// Michael Badnarik
quote[36] = "The reason we can't find a relationship between the Constitution and the government is that there is none.";
author[36] = "Michael Badnarik";
source[36] = "2004 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate";
years[36] = "";
// Dave Barry
quote[37] = "What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.";
author[37] = "Dave Barry";
source[37] = "Columnist, humorist and Pulitzer Prize Laureate";
years[37] = "";
// Warren Beatty
quote[38] = "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color.";
author[38] = "Warren Beatty, as Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth";
source[38] = "Actor, producer, writer and director, from the film Bulworth, 1998.";
years[38] = "30 Mar 1937 -";
// Yogi Berra
quote[39] = "The future ain't what it used to be.";
author[39] = "Yogi Berra";
source[39] = "Baseball player, coach, & manager";
years[39] = "12 May 1925 - ";
// Ambrose Bierce
quote[40] = "Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.";
author[40] = "Ambrose Bierce";
source[40] = "Author";
years[40] = "24 Jun 1842 - ?";
quote[41] = "Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.";
author[41] = "Ambrose Bierce";
source[41] = "Author";
years[41] = "24 Jun 1842 - ?";
quote[42] = "Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.";
author[42] = "Ambrose Bierce";
source[42] = "Author";
years[42] = "24 Jun 1842 - ?";
quote[43] = "Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.";
author[43] = "Ambrose Bierce";
source[43] = "Author";
years[43] = "24 Jun 1842 - ?";
quote[44] = "Academy: A modern school where football is taught.";
author[44] = "Ambrose Bierce";
source[44] = "Author";
years[44] = "24 Jun 1842 - ?";
// Wernher von Braun
quote[45] = "Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.";
author[45] = "Wernher von Braun";
source[45] = "Rocket engineer";
years[45] = "23 Mar 1912 - 16 Jun 1977";
quote[46] = "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.";
author[46] = "Wernher von Braun";
source[46] = "Rocket engineer";
years[46] = "23 Mar 1912 - 16 Jun 1977";
// Bertolt Brecht
quote[47] = "Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.";
author[47] = "Bertolt Brecht";
source[47] = "Dramatist";
years[47] = "10 Feb 1898 - 14 Aug 1956";
// Edmund Burke
quote[48] = "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.";
author[48] = "Edmund Burke";
source[48] = "";
years[48] = "";
// Winston Churchill
quote[49] = "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. \(probably in reply to Lady Astor's comment 'Sir, you're drunk!'\)";
author[49] = "Winston Churchill";
source[49] = "British politician and Nobel Prize Laureate";
years[49] = "30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965";
quote[50] = "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.";
author[50] = "Winston Churchill";
source[50] = "British politician and Nobel Prize Laureate";
years[50] = "30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965";
quote[51] = "I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.";
author[51] = "Winston Churchill";
source[51] = "British politician and Nobel Prize Laureate";
years[51] = "30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965";
// Tom Clancy
quote[52] = "The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.";
author[52] = "Tom Clancy";
source[52] = "Author and novelist";
years[52] = "12 Apr 1947 -";
// Arthur C. Clarke
quote[53] = "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.";
author[53] = "Arthur C. Clarke";
source[53] = "";
years[53] = "";
// Bill Clinton
quote[54] = "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.";
author[54] = "Bill Clinton";
source[54] = "42nd President of the United States";
years[54] = "";
// Rich Cook
quote[55] = "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.";
author[55] = "Rich Cook";
source[55] = "";
years[55] = "";
// Kevin Costner
quote[56] = "Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.";
author[56] = "Kevin Costner";
source[56] = "Actor, director and producer";
years[56] = "18 Jan 1955 -";
quote[57] = "Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.";
author[57] = "Kevin Costner";
source[57] = "Actor, director and producer, Tin Cup";
years[57] = "18 Jan 1955 -";
// Walt Disney
quote[58] = "If you can dream it, you can do it.";
author[58] = "Walt Disney";
source[58] = "Cartoonist & movie producer";
years[58] = "05 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966";
// Hugh Downs
quote[59] = "This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.";
author[59] = "Hugh Downs";
source[59] = "Co-host ABC-TV's 20/20";
years[59] = "";
// Roger Ebert
quote[60] = "Political Correctness is the fascism of the '90s.";
author[60] = "Roger Ebert";
source[60] = "";
years[60] = "";
// Paul Ehrlich
quote[61] = "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.";
author[61] = "Paul Ehrlich";
source[61] = "";
years[61] = "";
// Albert Einstein
quote[62] = "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.";
author[62] = "Albert Einstein";
years[62] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
source[62] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
quote[63] = "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.";
author[63] = "Albert Einstein";
source[63] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
years[63] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
quote[64] = "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.";
author[64] = "Albert Einstein";
source[64] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
years[64] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
quote[65] = "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.";
author[65] = "Albert Einstein";
source[65] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
years[65] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
quote[66] = "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.";
author[66] = "Albert Einstein";
source[66] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
years[66] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
quote[67] = "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.";
author[67] = "Albert Einstein";
source[67] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
years[67] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
quote[68] = "The important thing is not to stop questioning.";
author[68] = "Albert Einstein";
source[68] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
years[68] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
quote[69] = "Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.";
author[69] = "Albert Einstein";
source[69] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
years[69] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
quote[70] = "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.";
author[70] = "Albert Einstein";
source[70] = "Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)";
years[70] = "14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955";
/* Check if quote is real!
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955
Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)in Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium \(1941\) ch. 13",
*/
// Graf Fito
quote[72] = "There is no gravity. The earth sucks.";
author[72] = "Graf Fito";
source[72] = "";
years[72] = "";
// Henry Ford
quote[73] = "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.";
author[73] = "Henry Ford";
source[73] = "Founder of the Ford Motor Company";
years[73] = "30 Jul 1863 - 07 Apr 1947";
// Benjamin Franklin
quote[74] = "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.";
author[74] = "Benjamin Franklin";
source[74] = "U.S. statesman, economist and natural scientist";
years[74] = "17 Jan 1706 - 17 Apr 1790";
quote[75] = "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.";
author[75] = "Benjamin Franklin";
source[75] = "U.S. statesman, economist and natural scientist";
years[75] = "17 Jan 1706 - 17 Apr 1790";
quote[76] = "He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.";
author[76] = "Benjamin Franklin";
source[76] = "U.S. statesman, economist and natural scientist";
years[76] = "17 Jan 1706 - 17 Apr 1790";
// Tim Freeman
quote[77] = "When they took the fourth amendment,
I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment,
I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
Now they've come for the first amendment,
and I can't say anything at all.";
author[77] = "Tim Freeman";
source[77] = "tsf@cs.cmu.edu";
years[77] = "";
// Galileo Galilei
quote[78] = "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.";
author[78] = "Galileo Galilei";
source[78] = "Astronomer, philosopher, and physicist";
years[78] = "15 Feb 1564 - 08 Jan 1642";
quote[79] = "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.";
author[79] = "Galileo Galilei";
source[79] = "Astronomer, philosopher, and physicist";
years[79] = "15 Feb 1564 - 08 Jan 1642";
// Walter Hagen
quote[80] = "They called it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.";
author[80] = "Walter Hagen";
source[80] = "Professional Golfer";
years[80] = "21 Dec 1890 - 05 Oct 1969";
// Martin L. Haines
quote[81] = "The so-called drug war has been with us for perhaps 75 years. The "war" targets drug growers, sellers, buyers and users. Its chief weapon is the criminal law, vigorously enforced by vast numbers of state and federal agents, police and prosecutors. It has been a very successful war -- gradually destroying our courts, our cities, our budgets, our morals, and other countries. It has failed in one respect only: it has had no inhibiting effect upon the traffic in drugs. Indeed, that traffic, as a direct result of our criminal laws, has increased. It is time to consider some form of legalization.";
author[81] = "Martin L. Haines";
source[81] = "Retired judge and past president of the New Jersey Bar Association";
years[81] = "";
// Patrick Henry
quote[82] = "Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.";
author[82] = "Patrick Henry";
source[82] = "";
years[82] = "";
// Heraclitus
quote[83] = "Nothing endures but change.";
author[83] = "Heraclitus";
source[83] = "Greek Philosopher";
years[83] = "";
// Bob Hope
quote[84] = "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.";
author[84] = "Bob Hope";
source[84] = "Actor and comedian";
years[84] = "29 May 1903 - 27 Jul 2003";
// Elbert Hubbard
quote[85] = "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.";
author[85] = "Elbert Hubbard";
source[85] = "Author and publisher";
years[85] = "19 Jun 1856 - 07 May 1915";
// Robert M. Hutchins
quote[86] = "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.";
author[86] = "Robert M. Hutchins";
source[86] = "";
years[86] = "";
// Thomas Jefferson
quote[87] = "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.";
author[87] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[87] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[87] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[88] = "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.";
author[88] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[88] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[88] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[89] = "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.";
author[89] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[89] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[89] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[90] = "The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.";
author[90] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[90] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[90] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[91] = "The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.";
author[91] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[91] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[91] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[92] = "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.";
author[92] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[92] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[92] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[93] = "Were [a right] to be refused, or to be so shackled by regulations, not necessary for... peace and safety... as to render its use impracticable... it would then be an injury, of which we should be entitled to demand redress.";
author[93] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[93] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[93] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[94] = "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.";
author[94] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[94] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[94] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[95] = "A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.";
author[95] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[95] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[95] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[96] = "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.";
author[96] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[96] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[96] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
quote[97] = "There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.";
author[97] = "Thomas Jefferson";
source[97] = "3rd president of the United States";
years[97] = "13 Apr 1743 - 04 Jul 1826";
// John F. Kennedy
quote[98] = "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.";
author[98] = "John F. Kennedy";
source[98] = "35th president of the United States";
years[98] = "29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963";
// Martin Luther King
quote[99] = "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.";
author[99] = "Martin Luther King";
source[99] = "Nobel Prize Laureate and leader of the civil-rights movement";
years[99] = "15 Jan 1929 - 04 Apr 1968";
// Ronnie D. Laing
quote[100] = "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.";
author[100] = "Ronnie D. Laing";
source[100] = "Scottish psychiatrist";
years[100] = "07 Oct 1927 - 23 Aug 1989";
// Abraham Lincoln
quote[101] = "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.";
author[101] = "Abraham Lincoln";
source[101] = "16th President of the United States";
years[101] = "";
// James Madison
quote[102] = "Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.";
author[102] = "James Madison";
source[102] = "President of the United States";
years[102] = "";
quote[103] = "Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms.";
author[103] = "James Madison";
source[103] = "President of the United States";
years[103] = "";
// Jeff Marder
quote[104] = "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.";
author[104] = "Jeff Marder";
source[104] = "";
years[104] = "";
// Charles Murray
quote[105] = "Law is extremely important in a libertarian society. You don't have many laws in a libertarian society, but those laws that you do have, you take very seriously.";
author[105] = "Charles Murray";
source[105] = "";
years[105] = "";
// Napoleon Bonaparte
quote[106] = "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.";
author[106] = "Napoleon Bonaparte";
source[106] = "French monarch";
years[106] = "15 Aug 1769 - 05 May 1821";
quote[107] = "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.";
author[107] = "Napoleon Bonaparte";
source[107] = "French monarch";
years[107] = "15 Aug 1769 - 05 May 1821";
quote[108] = "In politics stupidity is not a handicap.";
author[108] = "Napoleon Bonaparte";
source[108] = "French monarch";
years[108] = "15 Aug 1769 - 05 May 1821";
// Ilie Nastase
quote[109] = "I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.";
author[109] = "Ilie Nastase";
source[109] = "Tennis star and president of the Romanian Tennis Federation";
years[109] = "19 Jul 1946 -";
// Rev. Martin Niemoeller
quote[110] = "They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. And then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.";
author[110] = "Rev. Martin Niemoeller";
source[110] = "Protestant minister in Nazi Germany, 1945";
years[110] = "from Political Quotations, Daniel B. Baker, ed.";
// Rosie O'Donnell
quote[111] = "I don't care if you think it's your right. I say: Sorry, it's 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.";
author[111] = "Rosie O'Donnell";
source[111] = "";
years[111] = "";
// P.J. O'Rourke
quote[112] = "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.";
author[112] = "P.J. O'Rourke";
source[112] = "Humorist & political commentator";
years[112] = "14 Nov 1947 -";
// Thomas Paine
quote[113] = "That government is best which governs least.";
author[113] = "Thomas Paine";
source[113] = ""Founding Father" of the United States";
years[113] = "29 Jan 1737 - 08 Jun 1809";
// Emo Phillips
quote[114] = "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.";
author[114] = "Emo Phillips";
source[114] = "";
years[114] = "";
quote[115] = "I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.";
author[115] = "Emo Phillips";
source[115] = "";
years[115] = "";
// Anthony Price
quote[116] = "The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.";
author[116] = "Anthony Price";
source[116] = "";
years[116] = "";
// Ayn Rand
quote[117] = "There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.";
author[117] = "Ayn Rand";
source[117] = "";
years[117] = "";
// Will Rogers
quote[118] = "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.";
author[118] = "Will Rogers";
source[118] = "Humorist & showman, Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962";
years[118] = "04 Nov 1879 - 15 Aug 1935";
quote[119] = "Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.";
author[119] = "Will Rogers";
source[119] = "Humorist & showman, Weekly Articles \(1981\), first published 1927";
years[119] = "04 Nov 1879 - 15 Aug 1935";
// Eleanor Roosevelt
quote[120] = "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.";
author[120] = "Eleanor Roosevelt";
source[120] = "Wife of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt";
years[120] = "11 Oct 1884 - 07 Nov 1962";
// Carl Sagan
quote[121] = "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.";
author[121] = "Carl Sagan";
source[121] = "Astronomer and Pulitzer Prize Laureate";
years[121] = "09 Nov 1934 - 20 Dec 1996";
// Arnold Schwarzenegger
quote[122] = "Everything I have ever done in my life has always stayed. I've just added to it...But I will not change. Because when you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.";
author[122] = "Arnold Schwarzenegger";
source[122] = "Actor and California governor";
years[122] = "30 Jul 1947 -";
// Homer Simpson
quote[123] = "Okay, brain. You don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's get through this thing and then I can continue killing you with beer.";
author[123] = "Homer Simpson";
source[123] = "";
years[123] = "";
quote[124] = "Oh, they have the Internet on computers now.";
author[124] = "Homer Simpson";
source[124] = "";
years[124] = "";
// Yakov Smirnoff
quote[125] = "In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.";
author[125] = "Yakov Smirnoff";
source[125] = "";
years[125] = "";
// Josef Stalin
quote[126] = "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.";
author[126] = "Josef Stalin";
source[126] = "Russian dictator";
years[126] = "21 Dec 1879 - 05 Mar 1953";
// Pierre Elliott Trudeau
quote[127] = "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.";
author[127] = "Pierre Elliott Trudeau";
source[127] = "15th Prime Minister of Canada, upon decriminalizing homosexuality";
years[127] = "18 Oct 1919 - 28 Sep 2000";
// Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
quote[128] = "Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.";
author[128] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[128] = "Author and humorist";
years[128] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[129] = "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.";
author[129] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[129] = "Author and humorist";
years[129] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[130] = "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.";
author[130] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[130] = "Author and humorist";
years[130] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[131] = "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.";
author[131] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[131] = "Author and humorist";
years[131] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[132] = "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.";
author[132] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[132] = "Author and humorist";
years[132] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[133] = "It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.";
author[133] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[133] = "Author and humorist";
years[133] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[134] = "What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.";
author[134] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[134] = "Author and humorist";
years[134] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[135] = "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.";
author[135] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[135] = "Author and humorist";
years[135] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[136] = "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.";
author[136] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[136] = "Author and humorist";
years[136] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
quote[137] = "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for them it costs nothing to be a patriot.";
author[137] = "Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens";
source[137] = "Author and humorist";
years[137] = "30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910";
// Voltaire
quote[138] = "A witty saying proves nothing.";
author[138] = "Voltaire";
source[138] = "French philosopher";
years[138] = "21 Nov 1694 - 30 May 1778";
// George Washington
quote[139] = "To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.";
author[139] = "George Washington";
source[139] = "1st President of the United States";
years[139] = "22 Feb 1732 - 14 Dec 1799";
// John Wayne
quote[140] = "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.";
author[140] = "John Wayne";
source[140] = "Actor";
years[140] = "26 May 1907 - 11 Jun 1979";
// Steven Wright
quote[141] = "Black holes are where God divided by zero.";
author[141] = "Steven Wright";
source[141] = "Comedian and actor";
years[141] = "06 Dec 1955 -";
quote[142] = "If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?";
author[142] = "Steven Wright";
source[142] = "Comedian and actor";
years[142] = "06 Dec 1955 -";
// Bill of Rights
quote[143] = "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.";
author[143] = "First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[143] = "";
years[143] = "";
quote[144] = "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.";
author[144] = "Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[144] = "";
years[144] = "";
quote[145] = "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.";
author[145] = "Third Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[145] = "";
years[145] = "";
quote[146] = "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.";
author[146] = "Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[146] = "";
years[146] = "";
quote[147] = "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.";
author[147] = "Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[147] = "";
years[147] = "";
quote[148] = "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.";
author[148] = ">Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[148] = "";
years[148] = "";
quote[149] = "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.";
author[149] = "Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[149] = "";
years[149] = "";
quote[150] = "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.";
author[150] = "Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[150] = "";
years[150] = "";
quote[151] = "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.";
author[151] = "Ninth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[151] = "";
years[151] = "";
quote[152] = "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.";
author[152] = "Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America";
source[152] = "";
years[152] = "";
quote[153] = "The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.";
author[153] = "Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary";
source[153] = "United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session";
years[153] = "February 1982";
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