Frank Chodorov Quotes About Giving
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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.
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The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.
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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.
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Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.
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