Chesterton

Examples

• Thus, as Mr. Chesterton suggests, no determinist is prevented from saying if you please to the housemaid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now this weakness is not, as Mr. Chesterton would like to believe, confined to the clever men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now man might return to the stage-coach if that seemed to him the supreme goal of all his effort, just as anyone can follow Chesterton's advice to turn back the hands of the clock if he pleases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mankind has certainly come nearer to justifying Mr. Chesterton's observation that one of its favorite games is called Cheat the Prophet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The soul survives its adventures, says Chesterton with a splendid sense of justice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Without any doubt socialism has within it the germs of that great bureaucratic tyranny which Chesterton and Belloc have named the Servile State. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But since we cannot unlearn our knowledge, Mr. Chesterton is only telling us to eat caviare on principle. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Chesterton, Histon, Waterbeach, and Oakington have each been explored, and have each proved disappointing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc speak of the magic of property as the real obstacle to socialism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There were also counter-revolutions, deliberate returns to orthodoxy, as in the case of Chesterton. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If it is a paradox to ask for a human politics before we understand humanity or politics, it is what Mr. Chesterton describes as one of those paradoxes that sit beside the wells of truth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I believe Chesterton has hold of an essential truth when he says that this is the first time men have boasted of their heresy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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