"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

James Thurber "American author (1894-1961)” quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe and Mail May 30, 2013

“Evidently, he [Osama bin Laden] doesn’t understand that a game of ‘Historical Grievances’ can cut two ways.”

The Mackenzie Newsletter #55 (January 2004)

“One of the marks of despotism, as all history shows, is that it is unteachable. Its intrinsic nature, it would seem, is such that it must always, sooner or later, express itself in ways which are not only indefensible but also quite manifestly indefensible.”

Lord Hewart of Bury The New Despotism

In my latest National Post column I suggest adding all the debt and interest payments government has piled on you onto your personal financial plan and see how bad things get.

"Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it."

Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) in Duck Soup (this line is widely quoted including online but usually inaccurately, including the child being 5)