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1. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

 

Category:Government  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

2. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

 

Category:Greed  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

3. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

 

Category:Government  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

4. 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.

 

Category:Fate  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

5. "It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden."

 

Category:Morality  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

6. "There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."

 

Category:Religion  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

7. "Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government."

 

Category:Government  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

8. "For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers."

 

Category:Government  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

9. "The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice."

 

Category:Virtue  

Author:G.K. Chesterton

10. "America is the only country ever founded on a creed."

 

Category:Government  

Author:G.K. Chesterton