function getQuote(){
// Number of phrases in ( ) //
var phrase = new Array(21);
// The phrases //
phrase[0] = "Today our nation saw evil…and we responded with the best of America.
- George W. Bush";
phrase[1] = "It was new York City’s worst week. But it was New York City’s best week. We have never been braver. We have never been stronger.
- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani";
phrase[2] = "We are shaken, but we are not defeated. We stare adversity in the eye and we move on.
- Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen";
phrase[3] = "This is not a battle between the United States and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. We, therefore, here in Britain, stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until evil is driven from our world.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair";
phrase[4] = "God is known by many different names and many different traditions, but identified by one consistent feeling: love, love for humanity, particularly love for our children. Love does eventually conquer hate, but it needs our help.
- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani";
phrase[5] = "The power to unite is stronger than the power to divide.
- an AT&T commercial after September 11, 2001";
phrase[6] = "When I despair, I remember that all through history, the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.
- Mahatma Gandhi";
phrase[7] = "Unfortunate events, though potentially a source for anger and despair, have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether of not this is the outcome depends on our response.
- The Dalai Lama";
phrase[8] = "Rather than fearing death, we’re embracing life – life is now seen as more precious, more meaningful than it seemed before that tragic fall day.
- Laura Bush";
phrase[9] = "America has suffered a great loss, but what has not been lost is our spirit, our resiliency as a society.
- Colin L. Powell";
phrase[10] = "Cultivation of a tolerance for other faiths will impart to us a true understanding of our own. For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches from the same majestic tree.
- Mahatma Gandhi";
phrase[11] = "We will never forget the victims of that tragic day, and we will not rest until the perpetrators have been brought to justice. As we join to end the scourge of terrorism, let us also unite to seize the opportunities we share to build a world of peace, prosperity, and democracy.
- Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State";
phrase[12] = "In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of September 11 in stone and metal, something we can show children as yet unborn to help them understand what happened on this minute and on this day. But for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we’ll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.
- George W. Bush";
phrase[13] = "I fear that all I have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.
- Admiral Yamamoto after the Pearl Harbor attack, December 7, 1941";
phrase[14] = "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
- George W. Bush";
phrase[15] = "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.
- George W. Bush, Speech at National Cathedral, September 14, 2001";
phrase[16] = "Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11th, and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair";
phrase[17] = "Our enemies have made the mistake that America’s enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.
- George W. Bush";
phrase[18] = "The terrorists wanted Sept. 11 to be a day when innocents died. Instead it was a day when heroes were born.
- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld";
phrase[19] = "If someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate.
- Mayor Rudy Giuliani";
phrase[20] = "They were our neighbors, our husbands, our children, our sisters, our brothers, and our wives. They were our countrymen, and our friends. They were us.
- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg";
var randNum = Math.floor(Math.random()*phrase.length);
document.writeln(phrase[randNum]);
}