In my latest National Post column I say the federal Liberals are acting like fools on carbon taxes... unless (to borrow a Goon Show gag) they're not acting.

 "A country that does not respect the rights of its own people will not respect the rights of its neighbours."

Andrei Sakharov, quoted in Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer The Case for Democracy

"Think. Think hard."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News July 6, 1912 quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #3 (Dec. 2006)

"There is a saying; if you can’t dance, sit down."

Letter from "T.B. of St. Catharines" in NCC Freedom Watch Vol. 2 #13 (June 5, 2001)

"The idea of liberty has ultimately a religious root; that is why men find it so easy to die for and so difficult to define. It refers finally to the fact that, while the oyster and the palm tree have to save their lives by law, man has to save his soul by choice."

G.K. Chesterton, “The Free Man,” in A Miscellany of Men, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 6 #3 (December 2002)