Linux Politics

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
                -- Salvor Hardin, "Foundation"

Never trust an automatic pistol or a D.A.'s deal.
                -- John Dillinger

"Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon."

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying
as an income tax refund.
                -- F. J. Raymond

Nihilism should commence with oneself.

No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple
act of justice.
                -- John Altgeld

No matter whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme
court follows th' iliction returns.
                -- Mr. Dooley

No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it
all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to.  It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.
                -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816

No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good
intentions.  He had money as well.
                -- Margaret Thatcher

Nobody shot me.
                -- Frank Gusenberg, his last words, when asked by police
                who had shot him 14 times with a machine gun in the Saint
                Valentine's Day Massacre.