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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

[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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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
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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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
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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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security

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