An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton