In my latest National Post column I say the recent cruise missile attack on Syrian chemical weapons sites sent all too clear a message... of weakness.
“Think before you think.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, quoted on www.memorablequotations.com
"an open mind is salutary, but one whose hinge is off?"
"H. Smith" [according to my detailed but now sadly incomprehensible note as to its origin]
"Symbolism and ritual keep things much simpler than they would otherwise be."
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 14, 1906, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #3 (Dec. 2002).
“He [police lieutenant Rowcliffe] said he understood my position perfectly, and how about my getting wise to myself and spilling some beans? I was, I told him, fresh out of beans."
Archie Goodwin’s internal monologue in Rex Stout The Silent Speaker
In my latest Looniepolitics column I say cowardice plays a surprisingly large role in our political troubles.