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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

G. K. Chesterton

[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.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
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.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love

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