Chesterton Quotes

On Separation of church and state: 

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” – Autobiography, 1937

 On Government and Religion:

“Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.” – Christendom in Dublin, 1933

On History (Maybe applicable to Fundamental Christianity)

“I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.” – ILN 6-3-22 

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