Linux Politics

Interfere?  Of course we should interfere!  Always do what you're
best at, that's what I say.
                -- Doctor Who

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan
which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons,
insist of the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather
than be the instrument of his army's downfall.
                -- Napoleon, "Military Maxims and Thought"

It got to the point where I had to get a haircut or both feet firmly
planted in the air.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

It is better to wear chains than to believe you are free, and weight
yourself down with invisible chains.

It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators.

It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its
proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a
better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat
your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of
attention, the harder the task.
                -- Sydney J. Harris

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
                -- Alfred Adler

It is enough to make one sympathize with a tyrant for the determination
of his courtiers to deceive him for their own personal ends...
                -- Russell Baker and Charles Peters

It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want
to die.