There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. – G.K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. – G.K. Chesterton
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G.K. Chesterton
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin