“After more than two thousand years, the mothers of India still frighten their naughty children by telling them that ‘Iskander will get them,’ and Iskander is none other than Alexander the Great…”
Hendrik Van Loon The Story of Mankind
“After more than two thousand years, the mothers of India still frighten their naughty children by telling them that ‘Iskander will get them,’ and Iskander is none other than Alexander the Great…”
Hendrik Van Loon The Story of Mankind
Yes, my CFRA appearance has moved from Friday at 1:30 to Wednesday at 12:30 at least for now.
“that native industry and perseverance common to all men when they are protected by a government which demands but little for its protection, when they are permitted to enjoy a system of rational laws founded on perfect freedom.”
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
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