"Thinking is loyalty to truth."
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 27, 2011, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 16 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2013)
"A wise observer has said that young people will give their lives for an exclamation point, but they will not give their lives for a question mark."
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things #169 (Jan. 2007)
In my latest Mercatornet article, I discuss the improbably close link between the founder of the Protestant Reformation and post-modernism.
In my latest National Post column I ask why Arizona Republican senator Jeff Flake is ducking out of the fight with Donald Trump he insists is necessary.
William "Blake could do so many things. Why is it that he could do none of them quite right?"
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (December 2001)
"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?"
Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Paine, date unknown, according to The Patriot Post Founders’ Quote Daily March 24, 2008 from Federalist.com
"It’s kind of like an elephant in a bathtub: If you don’t see it at first glance, chances are you never will."
Sen. Fred Thompson quoted by Jay Nordlinger in National Review May 17, 1999 [as it happens I don't agree with the point Thompson was making but it's a great metaphor]
"as trade guru Sylvia Ostry always says, given a choice between conspiracy and cock-up, bet on cock-up every time."
William Watson in Ottawa Citizen Oct. 19 2004