The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHappiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.
Gilbert K. Chesterton