“To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.”
Booker T. Washington, quoted on BrainyQuote [https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/booker_t_washington_378395]
“I wish someone would explain to me why it isn’t necessary to show probable cause of fraud and get a warrant in order to audit a taxpayer.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]
In my latest Epoch Times column, I ask for empirical evidence to support Chrystia Freeland’s Davos claim that decarbonization means “more jobs, more growth, more manufacturing” and instead find evidence that she lives in a dream world where wishes are solid and facts are just mist.
“Long ago he had heard of an old Chinese saying to the effect that a man who could concentrate for as much as three minutes on any given problem could rule the world.”
Louis L’Amour Flint
“It is in disaster, not success, that the heroes and the bums really get sorted out.”
James Bond Stockdale in Chronicles magazine July 1988
“SIGNING CONTRACTS WITH DEMONIC FORCES has every characteristic of the dream of the satanist. So why would it be taken as a topic for artistic and religious inspiration? A casual glace to the academic and artistic institutions throughout the world gives evidence that the world has taken seriously the call to give their souls, or at least their art, to the Devil.”
Patrick Gill “How the Devil Loses a Deal” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)
“I was always taught to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder to find one.”
Emailed by a friend July 1, 2023 with no further attribution; it is found in many places online and I do not know who invented it.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Justin Trudeau has poisoned our politics because, without even realizing it, he’s so belligerent and uninterested in policy that he’s always looking for a fight and if none is to be found he starts one.