If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTONYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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