“the words itched more than they tickled.”

Larry Hill in Maclean’s August 27, 2001

“One of the marks of despotism, as all history shows, is that it is unteachable. Its intrinsic nature, it would seem, is such that it must always, sooner or later, express itself in ways which are not only indefensible but also quite manifestly indefensible.”

Lord Hewart of Bury The New Despotism

"Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it."

Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) in Duck Soup (this line is widely quoted including online but usually inaccurately, including the child being 5)

“The main thing is never to act against your conscience, not to put your signature on documents you do not believe in, not to vote for those who you think should not be elected, not to approve decisions, not to applaud, not to pass on lies, not to broadcast them, not to write them, not to put them down on paper, not to pretend … Let your creed be 'Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me.'"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "Live not by the Lie" quoted by Ian Hunter in National Post August 5, 2008

In my latest Looniepolitics column I use recent NDP fundraising emails to illustrate just what's wrong with the political class's vision of the good life.

In my latest National Post column I argue that forbidding "cultural appropriation" would stifle dialogue and sympathy.

"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the Devil can throw at a man." William Hazlitt