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.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The past is not what it was.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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