Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONThose 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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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