Oh, hey, a diplomatic solution! Gee, why didn’t we think of that?
Jim Geraghty, NRO, 16/04/18
I would rather be ruled by people who think they’re gonna fry in Hell forever if they rule me poorly, than by people for whom I’m merely a convenient economic siphon who can be milked like a cow.
Charles Coulombe
Never, ever speak to the people who can put you in jail. No. One. Ever. Wins. At best, through preparation, you just lose less
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall.com, 11/04/18
If no-one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor
Neil Simon
Perverting the course of justice is supposed to be a criminal offence. Under Alison Saunders it seems to have become an instrument of public policy.
Richard littlejohn, Daily Mail, 03/04/18
“The greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record that he always studied his adversary’s case with as great, if not with still greater, intensity than even his own….He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.”
John Stuart Mill, 1859
You favour abortion up until labour pains are 3 minutes apart, possibly beyond
The wonderful Ammo Grrrll, in an open letter to Hillary Clinton, on Powerline, 23/03/18
Aah…. the infallible New York Times, they were even against the constructionof the Brooklyn bridge
Charles Ballard commenter on Powerline, 10/03/18
…when voters are ruled by officials and associated corporate types who despise them, sooner or later they will find ways of returning the favor
Angelo M Codevilla, American Greatness, 05/03/18
There is always enough mountebankery to go around
Charles Kesler, Claremont Review of Books, 05/03/18
There should be no limit [upon] the right of simple utterance of opinion
Frederick Douglass, former slave and seer
Stupidity is always amazing, no matter how often one encounters it
Jean Cocteau
There is no way that a writer of fiction can compete with real life for its pure absurdity
Malcolm Muggeridge
There are many who would wish to be esteemed humble, but are unwilling to suffer any humiliation
St Alphonsus Liguori
We took a strategic holiday from 1992 to the election of Donald Trump. Great powers can’t do that.
Steve Bannon, GQ Magazine, 28/02/18
After each aggressive Russian act, the administration lectured that “it is not in Russia’s interest to . . . ” — as if Obama knew better than a thuggish Putin what was best for autocratic Russia.
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO, 27/02/18
I don’t think climate scientists can foretell the future any better than the average palm reader.
H Sterling Burnett, American Spectator, 27/02/18
Why does a failed politician such as David Miliband need £479,000 to run another leading (overseas) aid outfit?
Ian Birrell, Mail on Sunday, 18/02/18
Romney’s severe disability is found in the Constitution: “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States.” Romney looks, acts, and thinks like an American noble, one who tragically cannot be made into a duke or earl.
Michael Brendan Dougherty identifies a syndrome that affects all shades of the US political spectrum, NRO, 19/02/18
For our friends in the Fourth Estate, the indictment was analogous to the drugged cake tossed to Cerberus by the Sibyl. Greedily choking it down, they became pleasantly sedated, indifferent to its diarrhetic effect, and inured to the high volume of noisome excrement it forced them to produce
David Catron’s poetic take on most of the media after Mueller’s latest indictment, American Spectator, 18/02/18
Barack Obama was…a lightweight, a career opportunist whose carefully managed resume touched all the right buttons but was so thin it could have been written on rice paper. Despite having written two books about himself by the age of 45, he hadn’t actually done much.
Hmm, kind of accurate from Chuck Hustmyre, American Thinker, 06/02/18
It is the believers who define their religion, not the non-believers. If someone says his religion is that the moon is made of green cheese, that has to be your starting point
Stephen Coughlin
‘When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him’
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, 1726
“If it goes without saying, it would go better by saying it.”
Talleyrand, 1814
What now appears clearly unethical and probably illegal would have passed as normal in a likely 16-year Obama-Clinton progressive continuum
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO, 31/01/18
I remember being lectured by the highly educated Obama state department team about how delicate a matter North Korea was. They would proceed with great caution, they said. At the time it felt impressive. But let’s be honest, it was a disastrous failure. Like so much of Obama’s foreign policy it looked sophisticated and wise but fell apart in the real world.
Justin Webb, Daily Mail, 10/01/18
My own state of California just legalized pot, as if we needed more lazy and boring people here
Kurt Schlichter has a point, Townhall.com, 08/01/18
This week we have seen doctors – or people claiming to be doctors – tweeting they have been performing ‘battlefield medicine’ and providing ‘third world health care’. Which is hysterical nonsense.
Dan Hodges, Mail on Sunday, 07/01/18
People don’t like living in a spiritual vacuum. History shows that the harder atheism bites, the more religion kicks back.
Dwight Longenecker, NRO, 06/01/18
“war is a horrific laboratory experiment that confirms or rejects vague and inexact prewar guesses about relative strength or weakness”
Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars, 2017
“You can’t value Bitcoin because it’s not a value-producing asset.”
Warren Buffett makes an obvious point
The interview allowed two vapid liberals to wallow in their privilege while babbling about a world without privilege
George Neumayr on Prince Harry’s weird chat with Obama, American Spectator, 29/12/17
There is never enough time or space to mock the United Nations adequately.
Jed Babbin, American Spectator, 26/12/17
Never will we understand the value of time better than when our last hour is at hand
St Arnold Janssen
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk
Henry David Thoreau
“Silence is the outer wall that we must build in order to protect an interior edifice.”
Cardinal Robert Sarah
“Whoever overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.”’
Satan, in Milton’s Paradise Lost
“Do not ask where a hero comes from”
Chinese proverb, courtesy of Sir David Tang, FT, 27/05/17
“…the hateful Crusader master of the White House, Trump”
Al-Qaeda’s surly description of The Donald in their Al Nafir Bulletin. Bit touchy, guys.
…it’s Tony Blair – back despite popular demand
Joseph Hackett, The Commentator, 10/05/17
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese
GK Chesterton
He was a bold man who first ate an oyster
Jonathan Swift
“it will bring down a curse upon us worse than that which God called down on the builders of Babel; rather than our speaking different languages, not to be speaking a genuine language at all.”
The late Sir Michael Dummett, Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford, referring to the plague of moral relativism
Succisa virescit – pruned, it grows again.
A Benedictine motto
I trust that my faith, my age and my life’s work give me perspective and credibility when I say I believe IS to be more evil than the Nazis who drove my family from Vienna.
Lord Weidenfeld
“One thing is sure. If you stand still and think that the fire is still far from your borders, then your lands will become the stage upon which the tragedy is performed”
Frederick William, The Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia, Political Testament, 19/05/1667
You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back
Horace, Epistles, Book 1
“Well, we all make mistakes”
Maudlin pickled traitor Guy Burgess, on his Moscow death bed, 1963
Wordly men talk of ‘simple people’ as they do of ‘humble people’, with the same indulgent smile. But they should speak of them as kings
Georges Bernanos
“I am a socialist”
Adolf Hitler
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick
GK Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday, 1908
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
St Francis de Sales