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"When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it." -
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GK Chesterton
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Top 5 quotes from GK Chesterton
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
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"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
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"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."
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"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with."
"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing you got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
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