"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.“
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"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God."
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"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
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"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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