Frank Chodorov Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• 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

  Government, Giving, Liberty

• [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

  Mean, People, Political

  Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

• The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.

  Frank Chodorov

  Independent, Rights, Government

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

  Frank Chodorov

  Reality, Political, Phrases

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.47, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• 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 it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.

  Frank Chodorov

  Hate, Ambition, Mean

  "The Income Tax: Root of All Evil". Book by Frank Chodorov, New York: NY, Devin-Adair Company, p. 27, 1954.

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