var num_of_quotes = 14;
quotes = Math.floor (num_of_quotes * Math.random());

if (quotes==0) {
body="History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.";
title="Thurgood Marshall";
}

if (quotes==1) {
body="I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education.";
title="Thomas Jefferson";
}

if (quotes==2) {
body="Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.";
title="Thomas Jefferson";
}

if (quotes==3) {
body="The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.";
title="Frank Zappa";
}

if (quotes==4) {
body="He who allows oppression, shares the crime.";
title="Erasmus Darwin";
}

if (quotes==5) {
body="Geography is good, but gold is better.";
title="Sir Richard Burton";
}

if (quotes==6) {
body="I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is:  I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute.";
title="Rebecca West";
}

if (quotes==7) {
body="To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.";
title="Marcus Aureilius";
}

if (quotes==8) {
body="Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.";
title="C. Wright Mills";
}

if (quotes==9) {
body="Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.";
title="Clifford Geertz";
}

if (quotes==10) {
body="Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.";
title="Groucho Marx";
}

if (quotes==11) {
body="If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.";
title="Franklin D. Roosevelt";
}

if (quotes==12) {
body="The unexamined life is not worth living.";
title="Socrates";
}

if (quotes==13) {
body="For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.";
title="Nelson Mandela";
}



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