America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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