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.
G. K. CHESTERTONI believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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