When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
G. K. CHESTERTONTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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