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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

G. K. Chesterton

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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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