“What, gracious God, is man! that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct?”
George Washington in George Washington: A Collection compiled and edited by W.B. Allen
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say people calling on Justin Trudeau to solve the world’s problems are asking the wrong guy to do something nobody could and certainly not a disarmed Canada.
In my latest National Post column I call Justin Trudeau and his ministers cowards for ducking the vote on China’s genocide against the Uyghurs.
In my latest Mercatornet column I compare the re-impeachment of Donald Trump with some other examples of historical vindictiveness.
“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
“They [the framers of the American Constitution] knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.”
Barry Goldwater The Conscience of a Conservative
“The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.”
President George W. Bush in his address to the nation on the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, quoted in OpinionJournal February 1 2003
“when we scrape away the varnish of wealth, education, class, ethnic origin, parochial loyalties, we discover that however much we’ve changed the shape of man’s physical environment, man himself is still sinful, vain, greedy, ambitious, lustful, self-centered, unrepentant, and requiring of restraint.”
Barry Goldwater With No Apologies (though elsewhere in the book even he said new technologies and ideas might make the world way better in the 21st century)