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.
About Frank Chodorov
Frank Chodorovwas an American member of the Old Right, a group of conservative and libertarian thinkers who were non-interventionist in foreign policy and opposed to both the American entry into World War II and the New Deal.
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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.
American libertarian thinker
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.
American libertarian thinker
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.
American libertarian thinker
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
American libertarian thinker