“That’s true enough, but we must go and work in the garden.”

Candide (when reminded by Pangloss that all is for the best) in Voltaire Candide

“Without memory we are a society suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s, tackling each day like a baby with its finger stuck out before the flames…. our self-imposed Alzheimer’s.”

John Ralston Saul in the inaugural LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture, reprinted in Globe & Mail March 24, 2000

"Liberty underlies the entire enterprise; it’s not just one more vector in an indifference curve.”

Walter Block in Michael Walker, ed., Freedom Democracy and Economic Welfare: Proceedings of an International Symposium

In my latest National Post column I ask: if this is not the moment to stand on conservative principle, when would be?