"Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t."

E-mailed by a friend without attribution

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Ontario Tories must speak and act boldly to get out of the hole they dug for themselves by not believing their own warnings about the state of provincial finances under the Liberals.

"What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."

Barbara Bush, quoted in Charles C. Heath The Blessings of Liberty

"for better and for worse, we do not erase. Only ideological dictatorships erase."

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

In my latest C2C Journal article I said the people tearing down statues of Sir John A. Macdonald have an even greater need to learn humility from history than the rest of us.

In my latest National Post column I say the Ottawa tornado is a worrying reminder of how fragile our modern high-tech just-in-time way of life really is.