"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)
"Your sheep’s clothing is slipping."
Eric Ambler, The Intercom Conspiracy, quoted as one of the "Top Ten Detective Fiction Wise Cracks" compiled by "Gramps" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #6 Issue 15 (April/May 1999)
"A useless life is an early death."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae – ‘History is the teacher of life’...”
Richard Pipes in National Review January 24, 2000
"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."
George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us
"True character is like film, it develops in the dark."
Michael "Pinball" Clemons quoted in Ottawa Citizen November 18, 2004
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
Helen Keller, quoted in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition March 2005
"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos."
G.K. Chesterton "The Book of Job," reprinted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001)