No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.