In my latest National Post column I call Justin Trudeau and his ministers cowards for ducking the vote on China’s genocide against the Uyghurs.
“Change, change, change. All this talk about change, aren’t things bad enough already?”
Queen Victoria, according to Lord Palmerston, quoted by Mark Bauerlein in National Post Dec. 14, 2020
“Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Widely attributed to Confucius online, but no site I found offers any further source details
“Good soldiers, who both love and trust their general, frequently march with more gaiety and alacrity to the forlorn station, from which they never expect to return, than they would to one where there was neither difficulty nor danger. In marching to the latter, they could feel no other sentiment than that of the dullness of ordinary duty: in marching to the former, they feel that they are making the noblest exertion which it is possible for them to make.”
Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, arguing that people shouldn’t have trouble facing disaster knowing God is good
“Since my last report he has reached rock bottom, and has started to dig”
Another apparently authentic British military Officer Fitness Reports quoted by Steve Madely in Ottawa Sun February 10, 1999
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask federal Liberal MPs in particular to remember their principles while there’s still time to do something good for their country.
“I suppose everyone knows this fear of getting ‘drawn in’, the moment at which a man realizes that what had seemed mere speculations are on the point of landing him in the Communist Party or the Christian Church – the sense that a door has just slammed and left him on the inside.”
C.S. Lewis Perelandra