Linux Politics

        Inheritance taxes are getting so out of line, that the deceased family
often doesn't have a legacy to stand on.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
                -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Interesting poll results reported in today's New York Post: people on the
street in midtown Manhattan were asked whether they approved of the US
invasion of Grenada.  Fifty-three percent said yes; 39 percent said no;
and 8 percent said "Gimme a quarter?"
                -- David Letterman

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