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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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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.
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