In my latest Epoch Times column I outline what we should try to do to improve 2023 come what may.
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
Dag Hammarskjold, quoted in Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“It must be remembered that, though concord is in itself better than discord, discord may indicate a better state of things than is indicated by concord. Calamity and peril often force men to combine. Prosperity and security often encourage them to separate.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England
“The chief aim of order is to give room for good things to run wild.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted as header quotation by Fr. Robert Wild in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #5 (May/June 2022)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I render “We Three Kings” if they were bearing Grit Red, Tory Blue and Dipper Orange… and prefer the original.
“Politicians are not going to get any smarter. Politicians are not going to get any nicer.”
Two entries in my ongoing work-in-progress “Robson’s Rules of History”, these two both dating to some point in the autumn of 1997. [I submit that thus far I have been proven sadly correct.]
In my latest National Post column, I write to Santa listing things I could really do without this year… and they all come from the government.
“Liberty is traditional and conservative; it remembers its legends and its heroes. But tyranny is always young and seemingly innocent, and asks us to forget the past.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 30, 1911, quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #5 (May/June 2022)