Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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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 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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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