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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
         

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.


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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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