“Constantine, sometimes (Heaven knows why) called Constantine the Great, was emperor.”
Hendrik Willem van Loon The Story of Mankind
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the real scandal in our government falsely claiming to be helping the U.S. and Britain against Iranian-backed Islamist pirates isn’t that they’re lying, it’s that they’re deluded.
“History sometimes rests on narrow shoulders.”
Paul Wells in National Post December 11, 1999
“Previous civilizations have degenerated. Previous ages have marched into the dark not knowing that they were marching into the dark. But in any previous time, were artists, scholars, and thinkers so eager to explain that degeneration was really progress?”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]
“Jean Chretien’s government wants the shade from the tree, but aren’t willing to do anything to keep that tree strong.”
Canadian Alliance MP Monte Solberg quoted in the National Post March 31, 2003 [the specific context was Solberg supporting the second Gulf War but it obviously applies far more broadly as well as chronically to politicians and the Canadian Armed Forces]
“To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.”
Booker T. Washington, quoted on BrainyQuote [https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/booker_t_washington_378395]
“I wish someone would explain to me why it isn’t necessary to show probable cause of fraud and get a warrant in order to audit a taxpayer.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]
“It is in disaster, not success, that the heroes and the bums really get sorted out.”
James Bond Stockdale in Chronicles magazine July 1988