"The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated"

Dean Inge, quoted in Russell Kirk The Conservative Mind

In my latest National Post column I say high-profile cries of racism over the acquittal of Gerald Stanley in the tragic Colten Boushie shooting are divisive and mean-spirited.

"no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse"

John Locke The Second Treatise of Government

"It is no more admirable to have valuable suggestions to make and not put them into circulation than it is to have a valuable coin of the realm and keep it stuffed into a greasy old stocking."

G.K. Chesterton, “The Walking Paradox,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton