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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton
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