7 Quotes & Sayings By Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov is an American writer, whose writings have been published in numerous newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post. He has also written extensively for the periodicals Human Events, National Review, and Reader's Digest. Chodorov was born in Brooklyn in 1913 into a family of Russian Jews who had fled to America shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. He attended New York Institute of Technology for two years before enrolling at City College of New York where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934. He later graduated with honors from Columbia Law School where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review Read more

During his time at Columbia he also wrote for the student daily newspaper, the "Columbia Spectator". During World War II Chodorov served as an infantry private in Europe. After the war ended he returned to school at Columbia University where he earned his law degree in 1948 and worked as a lawyer until 1951 when he left to become an editor at "The American Mercury" magazine. He later became one of America's most prominent libertarian writers by publishing many books on this subject.

His last book was "How Would You Like To Be Free?", published posthumously in 1999

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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
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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. Frank Chodorov
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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
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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. Parenthetically, what a stale and uninteresting world this would be if perfect equality prevailed! When you seek the taproot of reform movements, you find an urgency to eradicate these innate differences and to make all men equal; in practice, this means the leveling-off of the more capable to the mediocrity of the average. That is not Freedom. Frank Chodorov
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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
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The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. Frank Chodorov