If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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