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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (97659)5/8/2003 5:23:00 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Quotes, you want steenken' quotes, amigo!

"The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed." - G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw In America, 1922.

"He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." - G. K. Chesterton, Varied Types

"Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men." - G. K. Chesterton

"There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past." GKCh. (What's Wrong with the World)

"It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians." GKCh.

"I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred prophesy after the event."