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G.K. Chesterton

“There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant.”

G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
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What I Saw in America (Anthem Travel Classics) What I Saw in America by G.K. Chesterton
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