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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh Sabaoth" Zach 4:6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dio di Signore, nella Sua volontà è nostra pace!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin 1759

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

It's Only "Common Sense" to Remember His Birthday!

G. K Chesterton, known as the Apostle of Common Sense was born on this day in 1874. He was an essayist, artist, author, biographer, newspaper editor etc. He was a convert to Catholicism. His book, The Everlasting Man, played a role in CS Lewis' conversion to Christianity. He was a friend of George Bernard Shaw & creator of Fr. Brown. & that is only the hilights of the highlites of his life. In his honor here are a few of his quotes to ponder:

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." - Chapter 5, What's Wrong With The World, 1910
"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." - Chapter 19, What I Saw In America, 1922
"A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter." - ILN, 5/25/31
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - ILN, 4/19/30
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - Everlasting Man, 1925
"The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice." - A Defense of Humilities, The Defendant, 1901

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