In my latest National Post column I say Canada Day celebrations are insipid nowadays because our political, academic and cultural leaders just aren’t proud of the real Canada.
In an Epoch Times column I say the first thing Canadians need to do, in order to face the rising menace from China, is to recognize that regime for what it is.
“When fortune empties her chamberpot on your head, smile – and say ‘we are going to have a summer shower.’”
Sir John A. Macdonald, quoted by Dave Ryan in The Western Standard May 3, 2004
“When the affairs of a country are in a bad way it is useful to remember Oliver Cromwell’s advice to look back to the time when things went well and to try to see what subsequently went wrong. Complete success in such a task is rarely possible, but partial success would clearly repay the effort involved if it helped to unravel something of the tangled story of the rise and decline of great nations.”
Start of Introduction in F.R. Cowell Cicero and the Roman Republic
“After all, Vietnam was purportedly our Sicilian expedition…”
Victor Davis Hanson in National Review December 8, 2003
“And if any other document is henceforth produced which was made heretofore and which in any kind of way seems to gainsay what is here established, that document shall be cast to mice to gnaw or into the fire to be burned, and he who produces it, whatever his rank, shall be regarded as the sweepings of ashes and confounded with the most ignominious shame and with one accord shunned by all the men who are nearby.”
King Canute, to the monks of Canterbury as part of “The Endowment of a Monastery, 1023” in William L. Sachse English History in the Making