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The 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.

G. K. Chesterton

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Enough Place Removal Yourself
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTON

Command Government Man Rule
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Difficult Failure Religious Try
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Media Silence Validation
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Day Expectation Praise Way
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hope Seem
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance Virtue
[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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth

The 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.

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The 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.

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