In my latest National Post column I say GM closing plants after swallowing huge government subsidies teaches a sharp lesson… for those willing to learn.

“No society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged.”

Adam Smith, quoted in Lionel Robbins The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy

“Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.”

Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts

“The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Once abolish God, and the government becomes the God.”

G.K. Chesterton in “Christendom in Dublin” quoted by Noah Morey in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #1 (September 2004)

“This [race] is as tight as the rusted lug nuts on a '55 Ford.”

“Rather’s Familiar Quotations” [Dan Rather] in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005