America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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