Linux Politics

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist --
the taxidermist leaves the hide.
                -- Mortimer Caplan

There is only one way to kill capitalism -- by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.
                -- Karl Marx

There is perhaps in every thing of any consequence, secret history, which
it would be amusing to know, could we have it authentically communicated.
                -- James Boswell

There never was a good war or a bad peace.
                -- B. Franklin

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government
working for you.
                -- Will Rogers

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead
armadillos.
                -- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner

They call them "squares" because it's the most complicated shape they can
deal with.

"They make a desert and call it peace."
                -- Tacitus (55?-120?)

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the
system from within.  I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them.  First
we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens.  I'm guided by this birthmark on
my skin.  I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons.  First we take Manhattan,
then we take Berlin.

I'd really like to live beside you, baby.  I love your body and your spirit
and your clothes.  But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you I told you I told you I was one of those.
        -- Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759