Lake Musings

You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
      - Boris Yeltsin

"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators."
-Gen. Frederick Stanley Maude (head of the British occupation forces in Iraq, 1920)

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
- Groucho Marx

"How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake?"
-John Kerry, 1971

"The Art of War is so well study'd, and so equally known in all Places, that 'tis the longest Purse that conquers now, not the longest Sword. If there is any Country whose people are less martial, less enterprising, and less able for the Field; yet if they have but more Money than their Neighboor, they shall soon be superior to them in Strength, for Money is Power..."
-Daniel Defoe

"Intelligence is the soul of all public business"
-Daniel Defoe