"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

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

"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)

In my latest piece in C2C Journal I say that while "legislating morality" has a distinctly Victorian and reactionary feel we actually do it all the time, often on "progressive" grounds, so we need to think clearly about why and how we do it.

"the further back you look, the further ahead in the future you can see."

Winston Churchill, quoted by Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon in Cato Policy Analysis #364 (Dec. 15, 1999)