var quotes=new Array() //change the quotes if desired. Add/ delete additional quotes as desired. quotes[0]='"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."

 —John Adams (1735-1826)' quotes[1]='"Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."

 —St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) ' quotes[2]='"I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth."

 —William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) ' quotes[3]='"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

 —Edmund Burke (1729-1797) ' quotes[4]='"For an assembly or nation as for an individual, the prime mark of autonomous power, of independence, is the ability to say No."

 —James Burnham (1905-1987) ' quotes[5]='"Thus every social revolution begins with a spiritual and intellectual revolution. Men revolt first in thought, in order to be free to revolt in act."

 —Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) ' quotes[6]='"The intelligent conservative combines a disposition to preserve with an ability to reform."

 —Russell Kirk (1918-1994) ' quotes[7]='"It is our function to encourage the behavior, the manners, the whole attitude of mind, which democracies naturally like and enjoy, because these are the very things, if unchecked, will destroy democracy."

 —C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) ' quotes[8]='"Recreations are not education; accomplishments are not education. Do not say, the people must be educated, when, after all, you only mean, amused, refreshed, soothed, put into good spirits and good humor, or kept from vicious excesses."

 —John Henry Newman (1801-1890) ' quotes[9]='"We can breathe the air of liberty only to the extent that we are ready to bear the burden of moral responsibility associated with it."

 —Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1965) ' quotes[10]='"Education means not merely the imparting of information to the mind but the shaping of the mind and of the personality."

 —Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963) ' quotes[11]='"Man, as we say, is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."

 —Plato (428/427-348/347 B.C.) ' quotes[12]='"In every arduous enterprise we consider what we are to lose as well as what we are to gain; and the more and better stake of liberty every people possess, the less they will hazard in a vain attempt to make it more."

 —Edmund Burke (1730-1797) ' quotes[13]='"Neither virtue nor freedom alone, but the ineluctable combination of virtue and freedom, is the sign and spirit of the West."

 —Frank S. Meyer (1909-1972) ' quotes[14]='"To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child. What is human life worth unless it is incorporated into the lives of one\'s ancestors and set in a historical context?"

 —Cicero (106-43 B.C.) ' quotes[15]='"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

 —Edmund Burke (1730-1797) ' quotes[16]='"The love of liberty loses none of its intensity. In the true manly heart it burns deeper and clearer with age, but it burns to enlighten and to warm, not to consume."

 —Orestes Brownson (1803-1876) ' quotes[17]='"To live within a just order is to live within a pattern that has beauty. The individual finds purpose within an order, and security - whether it is the order of the soul or the order of the community. Without order, indeed the life of man is poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

 —Russell Kirk (1918-1994) ' quotes[18]='"Good order is the foundation of all good things."

 —Edmund Burke (1730-1797) ' quotes[19]='"But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind."

 —Edmund Burke (1730-1797) ' quotes[20]='"A wavering or shallow mind does perhaps as much harm to others as a mind that is consistent in error."

 —John Henry Newman (1801-1890) ' quotes[21]='"The constitutional state is an indispensable condition of every economic system based on freedom, because it offers the only means to ensure safety and protection against arbitrary measures."

 —Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1965) ' quotes[22]='"The only artists who can show great originality are those trained in distinct and established schools; for originality and genius must be largely fed and raised on the shoulders of some old tradition."

 —George Santayana (1863-1952) ' quotes[23]='"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

 —Edmund Burke (1730-1797) ' quotes[24]='"We are never going to be able to run fast enough to arrive at Utopia. And we should hate Utopia if ever we got there, for it would be infinitely boring."

 —Russell Kirk, An Intelligent Woman`s Guide to Conservatism ' var whichquote=Math.floor(Math.random()*(quotes.length)) document.write(quotes[whichquote])