We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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