Frank Chodorov Quotes

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• All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
• The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
• Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples…
• Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament,…
• The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it…
• There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
• Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
• We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop…
• [When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody…
• The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is…
• The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.
• The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but…
• Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to…
• The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under…
• The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
• Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
• Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source…
• The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have…
• Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied…

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