“the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
Fyodor Dostyevsky, quoted by Owen Lippert in Fraser Forum July 2000
On March 27 in a Christian Heritage Party webinar talk “Magna Lockdown: Canadian Liberty in a Medical Crisis” I argued that liberty isn’t a frivolous luxury or vague abstract ideal but a vital practical tool for creating and maintaining good government in crises as well as quiet times.
In my latest National Post column I say it’s fatuous to ask companies to stay out of politics; what they need to do, being collections of people, is seek to act morally in public as in private affairs.
“When was the last time you heard a soul-stirring message on the fear of the LORD? We prefer God to be soft and cuddly, so we have defanged and de-clawed the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. We have relegated the God of fearful judgment to those unread pages of the Old Testament. Surely, we reason, God has reformed his ways. But my God is still an awesome God.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“There is a game of April Fool that’s played behind its door,/ Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more”.
G.K. Chesterton “The Aristocrat” with respect to the Devil’s “little place at What’sitsname (it isn’t far away)”
“I want to go; God take me.”
Dwight Eisenhower to his sons John and David and his wife Mamie at his bedside in a "Famous Last Words" calendar I had in 2003
“tourist: the sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Roman Converts” in Dublin Review January-March 1925, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)
“We certainly are not that class of beings which we vainly think ourselves to be; man, an animal of prey, seems to have rapine and the love of bloodshed implanted in his heart…”
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Letters of an American Farmer