“‘The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please,’ wrote Edmund Burke, the hero of American conservatives, ‘we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.’”

David Frum Dead Right

“Even a paranoid can have enemies.”

Henry Kissinger, cited by Michiko Kukutani, “Bound by Suspicion,” The New York Times Magazine, January 1, 1997 and requoted in Quotes, Notes and Anecdotes (The Write File Quarterly) Spring 1997

“Saying the problem with a major government intervention wasn’t socialism but bad pricing decisions is like saying the Hindenburg was a success except for the fire.”

Here I quote myself from June 3, 2002 in reaction to former Energy Minister Marc Lalonde making some such excuse about the National Energy Program

“to illuminate the human soul.”

The task of historians as well as novelists according to British historian Cicely Veronica Wedgewood (1911-97), quoted in Quotes, Notes and Anecdotes (The Write File Quarterly) Spring 1997 and there attributed to her obituary in The Economist March 28, 1997

In my latest Epoch Times column I remember, with some difficulty, that even a really annoying and disappointing election is a victory every time we vote freely and without fear.

“He is a modest man, with a great deal to be modest about.”

Winston Churchill about Clement Attlee, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things April 2002

In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore the absence of foreign policy and national security from the current election, and from the minds of too many voters throughout the democratic world.

“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