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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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Generally Speaking, Chapter 20, 1929
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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.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3, 1910
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), On Holland, Generally Speaking, 1928
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Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

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