All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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