“Here we get closer still to the heart of the great human mystery. Nothing has been learned. The same people who made this catastrophic mistake recommend the same policies toward each new threat, as it arises; and the principle of appeasement is alive and well throughout the modern successor to the League of Nations.”
End of David Warren’s “Sunday Spectator” column in Ottawa Citizen Oct. 20, 2002 [specifically re dealing with North Korea]
In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s fine to argue over whether China is meddling in our elections, but if a large number of us don’t think it matters, we have no country.
“We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.”
G.K. Chesterton (not further attributed) header quotation on “News With Views Compiled by Mark Pilon” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the rather vague Wall Street Journal article about a U.S. government report on the COVID lab leak theory very good news because it means the possibility is being debated not cancelled.
“‘Lieutenant, how would you handle this?’ ‘We could try ignoring it, sir.’ ‘I see. Pretend nothing has happened and hope everything turns out all right in the morning?’ ‘Just a thought, sir.’ ‘I’ve considered that. There’s got to be a better angle.’”
Cdr. Buck Murdock (William Shatner) and Lt. Pervis in Airplane 2
“To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.”
“Japanese proverb” quoted in Patrick Hughes and George Brecht, Vicious Circles and Infinity: An Anthology of Paradoxes.
“Sometimes our stomachs hurt because we would go up to 15 days without eating. There were times when we only had one bird to share among the three of us.… We never lost hope because there’s a God Almighty and I have a lot of faith in Him. I knew He was going to help us.”
A guy who went on a three-week fishing trip from his home in Mexico with two friends that turned into a nine-month, 8,000 kilometre ordeal that ended in the North Pacific, living on raw seagulls, raw fish and rainwater, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen August 17, 2006.
“they [lawyers] are plants that will grow in any soil that is cultivated by the hands of others; and when once they have taken root, they will extinguish every other vegetable that grows around them.”
J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer [and yes, I grant that it’s easy to mock lawyers until you need one]