When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere 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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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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