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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride

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