"the further back you look, the further ahead in the future you can see."
Winston Churchill, quoted by Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon in Cato Policy Analysis #364 (Dec. 15, 1999)
"We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile."
Hilaire Belloc, quoted in “The Catholic Buckley” in George William Rutler He Spoke to Us, saying they were "written after gazing upon the ruins of Timgad in North Africa, a city destroyed by the Vandals”
"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)
In my latest Looniepolitics column I defend Bob Plamondon's disquieting claim that it was Jean Chrétien.
"The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae – ‘History is the teacher of life’...”
Richard Pipes in National Review January 24, 2000
In my latest National Post column I choke on "raw water".
"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