“It is in disaster, not success, that the heroes and the bums really get sorted out.”
James Bond Stockdale in Chronicles magazine July 1988
In my latest Epoch Times column I contemplate the painfully familiar task of finding comfort at Christmastime despite everything.
“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
In my latest Loonie Politics column I argue that the key to Kissinger’s diplomacy was the worldview behind it. And we’re not exactly racking up successes in such profusion that we can afford to ignore his insights.
“Hatred is a dead end street, and I want to continue on down the road.”
Spiro Agnew Go Quietly... Or Else
“Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.”
“Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richards Almanack, 1742)” as The Patriot Post Founders’ Quote Daily May 17, 2006
“A wholesome regard for the memory of great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire.”
Calvin Coolidge, quoted in National Review January 28, 2002
“Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once, and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it ‘the atmosphere of hell;’ and I believe it is so.”
Harriet Jacobs “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ed., The Classic Slave Narratives