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“I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.”

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Former Vice President of the United States, born on January 30, 1941. He served as Vice President under President George W. Bush and was involved in many domestic and foreign policy decisions. more

“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.”

Men Firsts Past Young Fighting Morning Courage Flower Intellect Tyranny Grandmother Courageous Thinker Offering Superstitions Attacking Free Thinkers Courageous Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.”

Should School Boys Courage Politician Gains Hardest Enlightened Copies Cunning

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.”

Men Should Firsts Courage Spots Courageous Cheese Survived Tablets Courageous Man Stilton

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .”

Different Friendship Different Things Comradeship

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.”

Ifs Two Friendship Millions Individuality Temporary Comrade Subordination Comradeship

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.”

Men Looks Soul Friendship Produce Deeper Friendliness

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.”

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Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.”

Needs Friendship Expression Imperfection Imperfect

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The only object of liberty is life.”

Liberty Objects

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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