Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
G. K. CHESTERTONVariability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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 evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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