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G. K. Chesterton

English author and Christian apologist

1874–1936

94 quotes, most often on Christianity, God and Truth & Lies. Part of the Writers collection.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
What I Saw In America
- Government
Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
Christendom in Dublin (1932), Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy
- God
- Government
A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy.
The Everlasting Man (1925)
- Democracy
- Government

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