The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed atall. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying historturer but not of keeping his temper. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed atall. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We do not merely love ourselves more than we love duty; we actually love ourselves more than we love joy.” — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head.” — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in a knowing way As… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Bigotry consists in a man being convinced that another man must be wrong in everything, because he is wrong in a particular belief; that… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
The man who throws a bombis an artist, because he prefersa great moment to everything. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Men at the close of the dark Ages may have been rude and unlettered and unlearned in everything but wars with heathen tribes, more… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals, Fast to surface and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified,… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
