""My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying expect in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.""
- G. K.[Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy."
- G. K.[Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change."
- G. K.[Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
- G. K.[Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
- G. K.[Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"Bigotry may roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions."
- G. K.[Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean the half a loaf is better than a whole loaf."
- G. K.[Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
- G. K.[Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874 - 1936)