“We shall never return to social sanity till we begin at the beginning. We must start where all history starts, with a man and a woman, and a child, and with the province of liberty and property which these need for their full humanity. As it is, we begin where history ends, or, rather, where disjointed journalism ends. We stop suddenly with the accidental truncation of today's news; and judge everything by the particular muddle of the moment.”
Quote by G.K. Chesterton
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 31: The Illustrated London News, 1917-1919
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