“’People say to me, that it is but a dream to suppose that Christianity should regain the organic power in human society which once it possessed. I cannot help that; I never said it could. I am not a politician; I am proposing no measures, but exposing a fallacy, and resisting a pretence. Let Benthamism reign, if men have no aspirations; but do not tell them to be romantic, and then solace them with glory; do not attempt by philosophy what was once done by religion. The ascendancy of Faith may be impracticable, but the reign of Knowledge is incomprehensible.’”

John Henry Newman, “The Tamworth Reading Room” (1841) quoted in Russell Kirk The Conservative Mind

“We are not any of us very nice.”

W.H. Auden, quoted by Rod McDonald in Ottawa Citizen March 20, 2001

“for God, there are no throw-away people”

“Rev. André Drouin, a parish priest at Ste. Anne, a downtown Ottawa church” who worked among others with AIDS patients, quoted in Ottawa Citizen Dec. 1, 2000

“The human psyche and human nature are artful dodgers.”

Sen. Anne Cools in a speech in the Senate March 13, 2001, quoted in Hansard Vol. 139

“Ride on the nightmare, if you prefer such horseflesh; only do not let the nightmare ride on you.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 15, 2009, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #6 (4-5/07)

“In 1945... the vaunted thousand-year rule of the Third Reich came to a brutal end. Great cities lay in ruins. Millions were exterminated; millions more were displaced and starving. A demon in human flesh had put the whole apparatus of the modern state to work to eradicate God’s people. The last victim of every murderous demon is its human host, so staying true to Satanic form, in the final days of war, Hitler and his leading Nazi henchman pulled the trigger on their own demise.”

David Kitz Psalms Alive!

“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.