Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Military

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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Military, Army, Men

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Military, Believe, Army

Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 2

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Military, Men, Elderly

"Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Business, Military, Army

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Military

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