It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. — G. K. Chesterton
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. -- Groucho Marx
“A Republic, if you can keep it,” said Benjamin Franklin, born today 1706, when asked in Philadelphia what kind of government the Founders had decided on.
Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. -- G.K. Chesterton
I am a vegetarian between meals. -- G.K. Chesterton
Plutocracy is safe so long as Conservatives are expected to defend capitalism and Liberals to defend corruption. -- G.K. Chesterton
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. -- G.K. Chesterton
Creeds must disagree: it is the whole fun of the thing. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue. -- G.K. Chesterton
What is wrong with our civilization can be said with one word — unreality. We are in no danger either from the vices or the virtues of vikings; we are in danger of forgetting all facts, good and bad, in a haze of high-minded phraseology. --G.K. Chesterton
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing. — Tom Waits
A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me is that the Conservative and the Progressive are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is a put-up job, and that the way they perpetually play into each other's hands is not an everlasting coincidence. -- G.K. Chesterton
The truth is that Irreligion is the opium of the people. Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world. But, above all, they will worship the strongest thing in the world.--G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy is merely thought that has been thought out. It is often a great bore. But man has no alternative, except between being influenced by thought that has been thought out and being influenced by thought that has not been thought out. -- G.K. Chesterton
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. — Henry A. Wallace
I know of no question that Voltaire asked which St. Thomas Aquinas did not ask before him. Only St. Thomas not only asked, but answered the question. -- G.K. Chesterton
A poor man has much more interest in good government than a rich man. A poor man must stay and be misgoverned; a rich man has a yacht. -- G. K. Chesterton
According to a modern critic, it is morbid to confess your sins. I should say that the morbid thing is not to confess them. The morbid thing is to conceal your sins and let them eat your heart out, which is the happy state of most people in highly civilized communities. -- G. K. Chesterton
God is at home, it's we who have gone for a walk. -- Meister Eckhart
When an Anarchist is poor he breaks laws; when he is rich he makes them. In neither case does he ever dream of obeying them. -- G.K. Chesterton
“The basic problem of the economic world is a spiritual one: what is the nature of man? Tell me what you believe about a man, and I will tell you your economics.” -- Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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