“Since my last report he has reached rock bottom, and has started to dig”

Another apparently authentic British military Officer Fitness Reports quoted by Steve Madely in Ottawa Sun February 10, 1999

In my latest National Post column I accuse Justin Trudeau and his cronies of willful blindness on the threat the People’s Republic of China poses to Canadians.

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

Winston Churchill, quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/721301-fear-is-a-reaction-courage-is-a-decision

In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada’s so-called naval procurement plan is a lot of mirrors and smoke but very little of the latter is from actual useful weapons.

“I once asked General Eisenhower’s son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn’t like.’”

Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“peaceful anarchy, than which nothing could be more impossible, given human nature as it is.”

Mortimer J. Adler Ten Philosophical Mistakes

“I would not breed from this officer”

One of several apparently authentic British military Officer Fitness Reports quoted by Steve Madely in Ottawa Sun February 10, 1999

“a lion can spot a limp.”

Quoted in an email from a reader this fall, on the subject of foreign policy but sourced to “something I heard an ex-convict say about the danger of exhibiting weakness in prison.”