You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONTradition 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.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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