“There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I do not think that under modern Western materialism we should have anarchy. I doubt whether we should have enough individual valour… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I merely declare my independence. I merely claim my choice of all the tools in the universe; and I shall not admit… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We cannot teach citizenship if we are not citizens; we cannot free others if we have forgotten the appetite of freedom. Education… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We are fond of talking about 'liberty'; but the way we end up actually talking of it is an attempt to avoid… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“the case is even stronger, and the parallel with madness is yet more strange. For it was our case against the exhaustive… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
