“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln, quoted in the American Spectator August 1988
They describe rural New Hampshire churches in March 1968 with spires “pointing the way toward salvation and a God who was, by most current accounts, either dead or hiding out in Argentina. It was going to be a bad year.”
William W. Prochenau & Richard W. Larsen, A Certain Democrat: Senator Henry M. Jackson A Political Biography
“But if ‘every man,’ as it has been written, ‘holds confined within him a mad-man,’ what must every Society do; - Society, which in its commonest state is called ‘the standing miracle of this world’! ‘Without such Earth-rind of Habit,’ continues our Author, ‘call it System of Habits, in a word, fixed ways of acting and believing, - Society would not exist at all.’”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
In my latest National Post column I call Erin O’Toole’s flipflop on gun control a test case of whether populism, as one way of making the electoral system more responsive to popular wishes, actually brings better or more honest policy.
“When you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill, quoted in William D. Gairdner The Trouble With Democracy
“Now that God is dead, however, or at least comatose”
Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic Monthly March 2004
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say it’s not surprising for an unprincipled Red Tory to join in the orgy of vote-buying at the expense of the last vestige of conservatism. But it won’t end well for the nation.
“To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child.”
Cicero, quoted in Andrew Nikiforuk School's Out: The Catastrophe in Public Education