In my latest National Post column I say don't let the government wear us down so we accept military procurement that takes forever to buy almost nothing.
"Progress is the protection of all oppressions to-day; because progress tells us we are better than our fathers, even where conscience tells us we are worse than ourselves." G.K. Chesterton in New Witness July 19, 1918, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 # 1 (Sept.-Oct. 2016)
"Generally speaking (there are beautiful exceptions), generally speaking, if a man acts, but does not talk, it is because the action he is performing will not bear talking about." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Feb. 2, 1907, quoted in Gilbert! Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)
The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, March 6, 2017"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2017/March/Ask_Professor_82.mp3[/podcast]
"Nothing fails like success" Dean Inge
"it’s so silly for people to speculate about things like whether He could have made a different moral order than he did. It’s like a child asking, 'If two and two made cheese, then what would monkeys equal?'" J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know
"That’s the key to comedy; allowing yourself to look stupid." Megan Mullally in Ladies’ Home Journal
"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory." F.W. Faber