Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
From Gilbert K. Chesterton
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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