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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Government Necessity Ugly
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Running Thinking
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Gratitude Test
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Bath Believe Practice
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
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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Entirely Men School Stake
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Country Government People