Linux Politics

A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
                -- Harry S. Truman

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
                -- O'Henry

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures.
                -- Daniel Webster

Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain.  He died in Washington, D.C.

"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of
the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the
cost to others, to win advancement."
                -- Norman Thomas

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
        -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy,
           Ecole Superieure de Guerre

Alea iacta est.
        [The die is cast]
                -- Gaius Julius Caesar

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was
the closest our country has ever been to being even.
        -- The Best of Will Rogers

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent
upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a
visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is
informing, stimulating and ennobling.
                -- H. L. Mencken

All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.
                -- Gaius Julius Caesar, quoted in "The Conspiracy of
                   Catiline", by Sallust