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Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
G. K. Chesterton
Christendom in Dublin (1932), Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy
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The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
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