"early on the 23rd, we left the bloodstained heights of the Alma – a name that will be ever memorable in history.

Nicholas Bentley, ed., Russell’s Dispatches from the Crimea

"‘The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.'"

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in "Serenity in Storms” in George William Rutler He Spoke to Us

In my latest National Post column I say the fact that British millennials are far and away the fattest generation ever is proof that something is very wrong with how we're living today... and I blame family breakdown.

"In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill"

The moral of his The Second World War according to Winston Churchill

"Winston Churchill once described the Balkans as a region that produced more history than it could consume."

Carol Off The Ghosts of Medak Pocket

"I remember that when I was a boy my teacher asked if anybody knew what laissez faire meant. I didn’t realize it was a French phrase. I thought it meant the government was 'lazy' and 'fair.' And it certainly worked well for Hong Kong under British rule."

Martin Lee in CATO Policy Report Vol. XXI, #6 (Nov./Dec. 1999)