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. CHESTERTONThe problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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 things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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