Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTONDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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