Localism Quotes

“At this point, I feel the need to make it clear that we are not advocating the seizure of existing corporations by governments to redistribute their ownership. What I’m speaking of here is a change of mood, a new philosophical outlook at the consumer level. If each of us actively chose to support businesses that fit the truly localist economic model as much as we could, the transition to a fully localist economic model would take place naturally,”
― Dale Ahlquist, Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching

“He openly called here for a “Green Revolution,” a new American campaign for liberty to be founded on “family unit operation and . . . family-basis ownership of land based on religious principles.”
― Dale Ahlquist, Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching

“That enemy was finance capitalism, characterized by plutocrats and economic monopolies sustained by corrupt politics. Agar believed that these forces had conspired to destroy free artisans and family farms, consolidating the ownership of land and other productive property into ever fewer hands. This system turned owners into tenants, craftsmen into industrial slaves, and free society into “the servile state.”
― Dale Ahlquist, Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching