"no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse"

John Locke The Second Treatise of Government

In some sense the French Revolution was “the black desperate battle of Men against their whole Condition and Environment, - a battle, alas, withal, against the Sin and Darkness that was in themselves as in others: this is the Reign of Terror."

Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution

In my latest National Post column I ridicule politicians' inability to fix the expensive, tangled, divisive mess known as Equalization.

"If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God) you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin."

T.S. Eliot "The Idea of a Christian Society" quoted in Russell Kirk The Politics of Prudence 

"It is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)