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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.
Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)
Neither thieves nor officials produce a marketable good to offset what they take; they contribute nothing to the purchasing power because they contribute nothing to the general fund of wealth.
Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)
There is no such thing as free schooling; it must be paid for and, taking the school system as a whole, its cost is defrayed by the toil of those who are under the delusion of ‘free’ education.
Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)
[E]very soak-the-rich tax must become in time a soak-the-poor tax.
Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)
[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.
Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)
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.
Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)
The path of skullduggery is made easier with a coating of morality, which is aptly applied to an established custom, by the lawyer and the professor of economics. And so, the business of taking what does not belong to you has been well obfuscated by a ‘philosophy’ of taxation’.
Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)
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.
Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)