"the mortadella of philosophers. Little globules of rich, fatty thinking, in vast quantities of baloney."

P.J. O'Rourke on Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted by Noah Richler in National Post December 6, 2001

 "Every right is a divine right."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 20, 1924 quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)

"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