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Words Worth Noting - October 24, 2022

“I guess the classic loser buck-me-up which John Diefenbaker used on every losing occasion is a quote from Sir Andrew Barton, an Elizabethan soldier: ‘…I am wounded but I am not slaine, I’ll lay me down and bleed awhile and then I’ll rise and fight againe.’ And he did.”

End of Val Sears column on the pain of political defeat in Ottawa Sun June 29, 2004

Words Worth Noting - September 19, 2022

‘‘My very dear sons, it is better never to undertake any high enterprise than to abandon it when once begun….’”

Pope Gregory, in reply to an appeal from St. Augustine of Canterbury and others to be excused from attempting to evangelize the English nation because “they were appalled at the idea of going to a barbarous, fierce, and pagan nation, of whose very language they were ignorant”, quoted in Bede A History of the English Church and People

Words Worth Noting - September 15, 2022

“there is little reason to believe that this socialism [that he saw coming in Britain and the U.S.] will mean the advent of the civilization of which orthodox socialists dream. It is much more likely to present fascist features. That would be a strange answer to Marx’s prayer. But history sometimes indulges in jokes of questionable taste.”

Joseph Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy