“With G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc and Maurice Baring, I never differed—except in opinion.”
John Buchan, quoted by Roger Kimball, in The New Criterion September 2003
“only a quarrel can interrupt a good argument”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 3 #5 (March 2000)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say fixing Western alienation will require more than honeyed words from the Prime Minister lately pouring vinegar on the region. We need to recognize that the West is unhappy with excessive government that destroys wealth, and that it is right to be unhappy. If that viewpoint strikes you as reasonable, please join the Economic Education Association of Alberta in Red Deer on Nov. 15-16 for our biggest-ever “Freedom School”, on “Meeting the Challenge of Western Separatism”.
“Kim: They [some Englishmen they just met] are only uncurried donkeys.” The lama: “Then it is not well to make a jest of their ignorance.”
Rudyard Kipling Kim
“What is a human life worth unless it is incorporated into the lives of one’s ancestors and set in a historical context?"
Cicero, quoted in Andrew Nikiforuk School's Out
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
George Chapman, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
If you enjoy a lively, controversial, definitely counter-consensus take on all kinds of issues, check out Rex Murphy’s new “RexTV” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZygLRdUzljg
“for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects.“
The Tisroc in C.S. Lewis A Horse and His Boy