//store the quotations in arrays quotes = new Array(21); authors = new Array(21); quotes[0] = "A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American."; authors[0] = "Woodrow Wilson"; quotes[1] = "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."; authors[1] = "Martin Luther King, Jr"; quotes[2] = "In the beginning of change, the patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot"; authors[2] = "Mark Twain"; quotes[3] = "I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this with absolute disregard of personal consequences."; authors[3] = "Daniel Webster"; quotes[4] = "Never, never, never, never give up!"; authors[4] = "Winston Churchill"; quotes[5] = "Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking."; authors[5] = "Sir Walter Scott"; quotes[6] = "The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."; authors[6] = "John F. Kennedy"; quotes[7] = "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!"; authors[7] = "Sir Walter Scott"; quotes[8] = "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother."; authors[8] = "from Henry V by William Shakespeare "; quotes[9] = "God and the Soldier, All men adore; In time of trouble, Then no more. For when the wars are over And the wrongs are righted, God is ignored The Soldier slighted."; authors[9] = "Anonymous"; quotes[10] = "Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold."; authors[10] = "Abraham Lincoln"; quotes[11] = "A good newspaper and Bible in every home, a good schoolhouse in every district, and a church in every neighborhood, all appreciated as they deserve, are the chief support of virtue, morality, civil liberty and religion."; authors[11] = "Benjamin Franklin, March 1778"; quotes[12] = "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men"; authors[12] = "Abraham Lincoln"; quotes[13] = "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood."; authors[13] = "Samuel Adams (1771)"; quotes[14] = "We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail."; authors[14] = "George W. Bush, September 2001"; quotes[15] = "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"; authors[15] = "Patrick Henry"; quotes[16] = "Victory is never final. Defeat is never fatal. It is courage that counts."; authors[16] = "Winston Churchill"; quotes[17] = "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."; authors[17] = "John Fitzgerald Kennedy"; quotes[18] = "Learning to serve God, family and country should be the aim and end of all true learning."; authors[18] = "Benjamin Franklin"; quotes[19] = "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace."; authors[19] = "George Washington"; quotes[20] = "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."; authors[20] = "Edmund Burke"; quotes[21] = "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."; authors[21] = "Queen Victoria"; quotes[22] = "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master."; authors[22] = "George Washington"; quotes[23] = "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."; authors[23] = "George Washington"; quotes[24] = "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."; authors[24] = "Thomas Jefferson"; //calculate a random index index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length); //display the quotation document.write("
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