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    Ronald Reagan
    “Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: inspirational, latin, politics
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: ethics, firearms
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    Joseph de Maistre
    “Christianity is preached by the ignorant and believed by the learned. And in this way is like no other thing.”
    ― Joseph de Maistre
    tags: christianity, maistre
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    tags: catholic, politics, religion, tradition
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: country
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: journalism
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    tags: art, morality
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    “Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
    ― William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke - Enlarged Print Edition
    tags: christianity, jesus, misattributed, quote
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: creation-science, evolution, evolutionary-process, science
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    “In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about three days when a car that was sent to take me to an interview failed to start. After several attempts to get it going, the driver turned to me, smiled wearily and explained: 'Soviet car'. By that time, that was all the explanation I needed.”
    ― Anthony DeCurtis
    tags: journalism, rolling-stone
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
    tags: big-government, government, politics
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    Thucydides
    “Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
    tags: equality, power, rights
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    William Francis Butler
    “The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
    ― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon
    tags: cowardice, fighting, renaissance-man, thinking, well-roundedness
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    Thucydides
    “Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
    tags: justice
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
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    Oscar Wilde
    “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: playing, winning
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    Joseph Stalin
    “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: vote
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    Joseph Stalin
    “Quantity has a quality all its own.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: quality, quantity, stalin
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    Joseph Stalin
    “Principles triumph, they do not compromise.”
    ― Joseph Stalin, Marxism and the National and Colonial Question
    tags: compromise, ideas, principles, stalin
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    Victor Serge
    “He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.”
    ― Victor Serge, From Lenin to Stalin
    tags: bolshevism, communism, lenin, purges, russia, stalin, stalinism, trotsky, trotskyism, ussr
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    David Benioff
    “Stalin goes to visit one of the collectives outside of Moscow,” began Kolya in his joke-telling voice. “Wants to see how they’re getting on with the latest Five-Year Plan. ‘Tell me, comrade,’ he asks one farmer. ‘How did the potatoes do this year?’ ‘Very well, Comrade Stalin. If we piled them up, they would reach God.’ ‘But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.’ ‘Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.”
    ― David Benioff, City of Thieves
    tags: communism, stalin
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    Joseph Stalin
    “Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: exciting, fun, inspirational
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    Joseph Stalin
    “I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: wise
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    Joseph Stalin
    “Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: inspirational
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    Joseph Stalin
    “In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
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