It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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 one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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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 past is not what it was.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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