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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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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.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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