Linux Politics

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
                -- William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
                -- John F. Kennedy

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.
        -- The Best of Will Rogers

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
                -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life is a concentration camp.  You're stuck here and there's no way
out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.
                -- Woody Allen

Listen, there is no courage or any extra courage that I know of to find out
the right thing to do.  Now, it is not only necessary to do the right thing,
but to do it in the right way and the only problem you have is what is the
right thing to do and what is the right way to do it.  That is the problem.
But this economy of ours is not so simple that it obeys to the opinion of
bias or the pronouncements of any particular individual, even to the President.
This is an economy that is made up of 173 million people, and it reflects
their desires, they're ready to buy, they're ready to spend, it is a thing
that is too complex and too big to be affected adversely or advantageously
just by a few words or any particular -- say, a little this and that, or even
a panacea so alleged.
                -- D.D. Eisenhower, in response to: "Has the government
                been lacking in courage and boldness in facing up to
                the recession?"

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

Love America -- or give it back.

"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into
the smallest amount of thoughts."
                -- Winston Churchill

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.
                -- Robert Moses