Quotes on history

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

G. K. Chesterton
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“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.”

Gk Chesterton
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“They died to save their country and they only saved the world.”

G. K. Chesterton
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“Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either.”

Fulton J. Sheen
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“They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.”

G. K. Chesterton
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“Fallacies, which do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

Gk Chesterton
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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

Gk Chesterton
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“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men…. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.”

Gk Chesterton
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“The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.”

G. K. Chesterton
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

Gk Chesterton
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