Words Worth Noting - October 24, 2022

“I guess the classic loser buck-me-up which John Diefenbaker used on every losing occasion is a quote from Sir Andrew Barton, an Elizabethan soldier: ‘…I am wounded but I am not slaine, I’ll lay me down and bleed awhile and then I’ll rise and fight againe.’ And he did.”

End of Val Sears column on the pain of political defeat in Ottawa Sun June 29, 2004