Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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[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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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