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