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var quotes = new makeArray(25);
quotes[0] = "A Capitol Fourth marks its 28th broadcast in 2009.";
quotes[1] = "The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first newspaper to print the Declaration of Independence on July 6th, 1776.";
quotes[2] = "The flag should never be displayed upside down except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.";
quotes[3] = "The Continental Army was formed more than a year before the colonists made their Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.";
quotes[4] = "John Adams was the first president to live in the White House.";
quotes[5] = "John Hancock signed his name on the Declaration of Independence so that King George would not have to &quot;put on his spectacles&quot; to see.";
quotes[6] = "During the Boston Tea Party of 1773, 342 chests of tea were dumped into the harbor.";
quotes[7] = "The Declaration of Independence was passed by the 2nd Continental Congress on July 2, 1776, but the national holiday is celebrated on the 4th &#150; the day it was officially adopted.";
quotes[8] = "Only one President, Calvin Coolidge, was born on the Fourth of July.  Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe all died on the Fourth.";
quotes[9] = "Congress declared July 4th a national holiday in 1941.";
quotes[10] = "The inscription on the Liberty Bell&#151;&quot;Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof...&quot;&#151;was chosen a quarter of a century before the American Revolution.";
quotes[11] = "The first official Fourth of July celebration, as affirmed by a legislative act, occurred in Massachusetts in 1781. By the mid 1800s, it became a United States custom to commemorate Independence Day in states and territories.";
quotes[12] = "Although Francis Scott Key's &quot;Star Spangled Banner&quot; was immediately popular, it was not officially adopted as our national anthem until March 3, 1931, through an Act of Congress.";
quotes[13] = "Uncle Sam was first popularized during the War of 1812, when the term appeared on supply containers. The U. S. Congress didn't adopt him as a national symbol until 1961.";
quotes[14] = "In July 1776, there were about 2.5 million people living in the colonies. Today the number of U.S. residents is approximately 296.5 million.";
quotes[15] = "&quot;<i>The day will be the most memorable in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival... It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for ever more.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; John Adams, July 3, 1776";
quotes[16] = "&quot;<i>How long ago is it? Eighty odd years since, upon the Fourth day of July, for the first time in the world, a union body of representatives was assembled to declare as a self-evident truth that all men were created equal.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; President Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1863";
quotes[17] = "&quot;<i>I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'</i>&quot;<br />&#150; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.";
quotes[18] = "&quot;<i>Freedom is the deepest and noblest aspiration of the human spirit.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; President Ronald Reagan";
quotes[19] = "&quot;<i>The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; President Woodrow Wilson";
quotes[20] = "&quot;<i>We look forward to a world founded on four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; President Franklin Roosevelt";
quotes[21] = "&quot;<i>Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; Albert Einstein";
quotes[22] = "&quot;<i>When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea.  He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; Adlai Stevenson";
quotes[23] = "&quot;<i>Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; Louis D. Brandeis";
quotes[24] = "&quot;<i>We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.</i>&quot;<br />&#150; President John F. Kennedy";


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