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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
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This quote is just one of 51 total G. K. Chesterton quotes in our collection. G. K. Chesterton is known for saying '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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.' as well as some of the following quotes.
A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
This quote is just one of 51 total G. K. Chesterton quotes in our collection. G. K. Chesterton is known for saying '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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.' as well as some of the following quotes.