Gilbert K. Chesterton

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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