“I want to go; God take me.”

Dwight Eisenhower to his sons John and David and his wife Mamie at his bedside in a "Famous Last Words" calendar I had in 2003

“We certainly are not that class of beings which we vainly think ourselves to be; man, an animal of prey, seems to have rapine and the love of bloodshed implanted in his heart…”

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Letters of an American Farmer

In my latest National Post column I say Erin O’Toole’s position on climate change is driven not by what he thinks about global warming but by the fact that he does not think about it.

“‘Let there be light!’ said God, and there was light! ‘Let there be blood,’ says man, and there’s a sea!’”

Lord Byron “Don Juan” quoted in Orlo Miller The Donnellys Must Die

In my latest Epoch Times column I say calling for Canada to become a republic because of Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview, or for any other reason, misses the point that it already is one.

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.”

“Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 20, 2012

“What, gracious God, is man! that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct?”

George Washington in George Washington: A Collection compiled and edited by W.B. Allen

In my latest National Post article I say Meghan Markle’s victim act is neither useful nor interesting.