Frank Chodorov Quotes

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.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Can government really be active and, at the same time, limited? History suggests otherwise.

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of government power, not the increase of it.

Our devotion to individual freedom limits our readiness to give central government the power to override our traditional power structure.

Everybody wants the government to be smaller and everyone wants the government to leave them alone.

Those who seek always to limit the power of government are of good heart and conscience. Those who seek to expand the power of government are base tyrants.

Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.