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Top 25 Frank Chodorov Quotes (2025 Update)

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.”

3. “Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?”

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

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.”

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

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “A case in point was the Eighteenth Amendment which, for the thirteen years it was in effect, was decried because it gave the government power to control the drinking habits of the citizen; his rights were invaded.”

8. “A case in point was the Eighteenth Amendment which, for the thirteen years it was in effect, was decried because it gave the government power to control the drinking habits of the citizen; his rights were invaded.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.”

10. “The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “There cannot be a “good” society until there are “good” men.”

11. “There cannot be a “good” society until there are “good” men.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.”

13. “Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.”

16. “Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.”

20. “Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.”

21. “There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Frank Chodorov Quote: “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; although they delude themselves with the thought that they might get some of the pelt the fact is that the taxing of incomes cannot in any way improve their economic condition.”

25. “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; although they delude themselves with the thought that they might get some of the pelt the fact is that the taxing of incomes cannot in any way improve their economic condition.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam, the politicians would most assuredly start a counterrevolution. Measures to enforce voting would be instituted; fines would be imposed for violations, and prison sentences would be meted out to repeaters.”

26. “The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam, the politicians would most assuredly start a counterrevolution. Measures to enforce voting would be instituted; fines would be imposed for violations, and prison sentences would be meted out to repeaters.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government; in fact, if the price demanded for the gratuities is the relinquishment of rights, they are not averse to paying it. There is evidence enough that this trade is often made, and that the government is able to enter into it because of its income-tax revenues.”

27. “A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government; in fact, if the price demanded for the gratuities is the relinquishment of rights, they are not averse to paying it. There is evidence enough that this trade is often made, and that the government is able to enter into it because of its income-tax revenues.”

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.”

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

— Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov Quote: “The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.”

29. “The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.”

— Frank Chodorov

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