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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

G. K. Chesterton

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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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Deep Media Silence Validation
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
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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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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.
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Education Man School Time

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