Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. CHESTERTONDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The 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 thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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.
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