A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
Gilbert K. Chesterton