[glug-t] Re: GNU Manifesto Question

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 17:44, Vijay Kumar wrote:
 
> What is the meaning of "millions for defense, but not a cent for
> tribute!"? We 
> do not understand it to the point of being able to translate it to
> tamil. 
> Can somebody tell us the meaning of this line?
> 
 
Has to do with some american history stuff, it seems:

By 1800 a new slogan was beginning to appear across the new country,
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."

http://www.zianet.com/wblase/endtimes/barbary.htm

After reading this,I think it should be appropriated.

-Senthil



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