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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Action
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. From all that terror teaches, From lies of tongue and pen; From all the easy speeches That comfort cruel men; From sale and profanation Of honor and the sword; From sleep and from damnation, Deliver us, good Lord! Tie in a living tether The prince and priest and thrall; Bind all our lives together, Smite us and save us all; In ire and exultation Aflame with faith, and free, Lift up a living nation, A single sword to Thee.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Christianity
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Cleverness
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Compromise
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Country
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Courage
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Courage
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Democracy
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Education
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Hygiene
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Quotation
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