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. ChestertonAll good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTo desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton