"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.“
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
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"I've always known I wanted a family."
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
-Bob Geldof
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