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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

G. K. Chesterton

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Education Man School Time
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Bad Democracy Education Government
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Boat Sick Togetherness
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G. K. CHESTERTON

Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Problem See Solution Yourself
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
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
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
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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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Build Country Foundation Religion
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hope Seem
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand

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