Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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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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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.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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