Words Worth Noting - June 12, 2024

“I do not seriously propose to interpret Distributism in the sense of One Man One Musket: or even to go to the country with a programme of Three Acres and a Machine-Gun. But I do think that, for any one with a historical imagination and sense of symbolism, there is a certain connection between the old notion of private weapons and the true notion of private property. In that aspect, the other name of Distributism is Self-Defence.”

G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly April 4, 1931, quoted in “Chesterton’s Mail Bag” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 6 (July-August 2023)