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.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Progress is the mother of problems.