Frank Chodorov Quotes

#1. If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Frank Chodorov

#2. All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Frank Chodorov

#3. The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Frank Chodorov

#4. Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Frank Chodorov

#5. Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.

Frank Chodorov

#6. When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.

Frank Chodorov

#7. In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

Frank Chodorov

#8. We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

Frank Chodorov

#9. 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 could only take it away.

Frank Chodorov

#10. There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

Frank Chodorov

#11. 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 else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Frank Chodorov

#12. Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

Charles Garfield

#13. 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 the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

Frank Chodorov

#14. Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Groucho Marx

#15. Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Frank Chodorov

#16. I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

Robyn Davidson

#17. The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#18. Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.

Frank Chodorov

#19. 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 a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

Frank Chodorov

#20. 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 in every bond issue is a false promise.

Frank Chodorov

#21. The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

Frank Chodorov

#22. The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

Frank Chodorov

#23. 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 separated by trade barriers.

Frank Chodorov

#24. I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

Ty Simpkins

#25. Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

Frank Chodorov

#26. Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

Frank Chodorov

#27. Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Frank Chodorov

#28. When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

Gerald Durrell

#29. They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

Sharon Gless

#30. 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.

Frank Chodorov

#31. 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 an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.

Frank Chodorov

#32. Send the haters all my love. X and O.

Drake