Frank Chodorov Quotes

Almost every great war has led to a collapse of the coalition that won the victory.

There is no force greater than the state force.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

The duration and severity of war has always increased with an increase in state power. Larger states, far from providing peace, merely provide larger wars, having more human and material resources to pour into them.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

Too frequent or too quick a resort to force can also undermine the authority of power. Not all use of force is created equal. Other states will grant authority to the use of force, implicitly if not otherwise, if it falls within the bonds of justice and reason; if they think a use of force does not fall within such bonds, they will withdraw their legitimate consent, and thereby undermine the authority of power.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism—despotism during the campaign—is indispensable.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

‘National Security’ is, in effect, a translation of the European concept of ‘raison d’etat’, providing cover for a government that felt free to break through all traditional limits on its power.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

Military campaigns are inseparable from politics.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

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.