War and Politics

• "[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution" - ILN, 7/19/19.
• "War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you" - ILN, 7/24/15.
• "There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting" - Everlasting Man, 1925.
• "The only defensible war is a war of defense" - Autobiography, 1937.
• "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him" - ILN, 1/14/11.
• "How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable" - The Listener. 3-6-35.

A text chosen from "American Chesterton Society".

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