Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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 State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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