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...but out of the desert, from...

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The new school of art and thou...

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The professional soldier gains...

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is the first law of practic...

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is not really any courag...

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I would rather a boy learnt in...

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There should be a burnished ta...

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Comradeship is quite a differe...

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

. . . For friendship implies i...

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Only friendliness produces fri...

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is not merely true that a c...

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. 'I say God is One,' and 'I say God is One but also Three,' that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

These are the things which mig...

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Because our expression is impe...

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The only object of liberty is ...

The only object of liberty is life.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The eagle has no liberty; he o...

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Liberty is the very last idea ...

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Every sane man recognises that...

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Religious unity can look like ...

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Without authority there is no ...

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The man of the true religious ...

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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