Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Assumption

• The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Evil, Assumption

• The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  America, Voting, Democracy

• Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Strange, Assumption

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