Frank Chodorov Liberty Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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.