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The State acquires power at the expense of freedom, and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

— Frank Chodorov

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

The Economics of Society, Government, and State (1946)

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

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)

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.

The Rise & Fall of Society (1959)

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