A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTONBut 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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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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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The past is not what it was.
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