“Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.”
“Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richards Almanack, 1742)” as The Patriot Post Founders’ Quote Daily May 17, 2006
“It often happens in history that things intensely small and local, or even backward and barbaric, defend themselves with great success against empires and combines, simply because they are too remote to have been overawed by mere cosmopolitan rumour and reputation. There are some fortunate communities that are too ignorant to be bullied, too superstitious to be frightened, too poor to be bribed, and too small to be destroyed. It is probably in these minute and secret places that the seed of civilization will be preserved for future ages, through the blundering anarchy of big things which seems to be coming upon us.”
Apparently an excerpt from “The Problems with Progress” in G.K.’s Weekly Vol. 7 March-September 1928, quoted in “An Introduction to the writings of G.K. Chesterton” by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the recent riots in Ireland are a warning sign about what happens when normal people feel that their core concerns are deliberately excluded from the political process.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I denounce the PM’s characteristic blend of self-importance and moral blindness on the Middle East.
“A wholesome regard for the memory of great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire.”
Calvin Coolidge, quoted in National Review January 28, 2002
In my latest National Post column I say the tendency of Western feminists to side with Hamas, to the point of denying systematic rape during the Oct. 7 attack, reveals starkly that something is extremely wrong with an ideology that claims to be motivated by love and compassion.
“Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once, and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it ‘the atmosphere of hell;’ and I believe it is so.”
Harriet Jacobs “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ed., The Classic Slave Narratives
“‘Read biography,’ said Disraeli, ‘for that is life without theory.’”
John O’Sullivan in National Review December 8, 1997