“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

Edward R. Murrow according to an email from a friend, also supported here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39025-a-nation-of-sheep-will-beget-a-government-of-wolves

“For an aristocracy is always progressive; it is a form of going the pace. Their parties grow later and later at night; for they are trying to live to-morrow.”

G.K. Chesterton What’s Wrong with the World

“Doing things and denouncing things are both quite easy, as compared with thinking about them.”

G.K. Chesterton, “On Keeping Your Hair On,” in Sidelights, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #5 (March 2006)

“in Nisga’a culture, we believe that this pole is alive with the spirit of our ancestors.”

An aboriginal chief regarding a totem pole repatriated from a Scottish museum, quoted in National Post August 29, 2023

“Carlotta was the kind of town where they spelled trouble t-r-u-b-i-l and if you tried to correct them they killed you.”

Rigby Reardon [played by Steve Martin] in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the fiscally reckless Ontario budget is more proof that the politicians can barely be bothered going through the motions of governing responsibly any more.

“Even the most obvious things can be doubted. The test of a truth is not whether I doubt it, or whether I am able to doubt it, but whether the reasons for thinking it is true are better than the reasons not to.”

J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]

“a simplistic great-fool theory of history.”

Peter H. Russell, Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Be a Sovereign People? [re people blaming Mulroney’s ambition to outdo Pierre Trudeau for the Meech Lake debacle]