For most of us, politics is an impossible toy that bears neither logic nor
reason.  I always felt that one of the virtues of democracy is that the fools
and charlatans will be elected to public office--and, because they can be
bought or sold like fish, will leave the rest of us alone.  the only times our
country is in danger--true danger--is when some idealist finds himself in a
position of power.  Because they nurse beautiful ideals to their ambitious
breasts--they will sacrifice you and me to those ideals without a qualm.  More
wars sprouted in this country during times of saints than fools--Lincoln,
Wilson, Roosevelt (the younger), and Kennedy managed to spill more blood,
between them, than any Eisenhower or Harding or Tyler.
	-- Lorenzo Milam