My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.
I always thought of this as God's country.
Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity.
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.
Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
Salt. Wound. Together at last.