Quotation for Today, Monday 19 October

“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”

G K Chesterton in a radio talk in 1935.

How times have changed. Adam shudders to think what Chesterton would say about today’s society.

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