The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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