"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
More Quotes from G.K. Chesterton:
"The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man."
"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."
"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong."
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
"There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous."
"The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right."
"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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