“Words cannot express how deeply I regret the Annexation of Schleswig-Holstein.”
Florence King in National Review July 14 1997 (re politicians' fatuous habit of apologizing for historical deeds they had nothing to do with)
“No one is better placed to resist pressure than the person who knows he can’t give in to it.”
Conor Cruise O’Brien The Siege
"The commander of the local French naval district… answered as if he were conversing with a fungus."
Clive Cussler in The Sea Hunters (a true story, in which the commander is answering Cussler)
In my latest National Post column I say, from hearing a series of outstanding talks at Moses Znaimer's ideacity conference, that the future is here now.
"The king [Hrolf, to Bodvar] said, 'I knew when you came here that few would be your equal, but it seems to me that your finest achievement is that you have made Hott into another champion. He was previously thought to be a man in whom there was little probability of much luck.'"
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
In my latest National Post column I call the willingness even of a sizeable minority of Britons to vote for a Labour Party headed by the appalling Jeremy Corbyn a worrying sign of loss of the self-control on which self-government depends throughout the Western world.