Frank Chodorov Quotes
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.
Chodorov, Frank. The Income Tax: Root of All Evil. New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1954, p. 55.
Adams died on July 4th.
He later settled for Home Rule in the Irish Treaty of 1922
From the very beginning of the country, some states reserved the job of policing the state to the state as opposed to the Federal Government and would not countenance federal police, and there really were not any until the FBI was created in the 20th century. Still unlike any other country, the Federal government has minimal policing power. The FBI is very small—so small that it is smaller then one of the three shifts of the New York City police department.
The Texans wanted independence from Mexico and this quotation illustrates their three possible alternatives. Most Texans wanted to join the United State, but the United States was not very enthusiastic about having Texas. In a sense, Texas was made up of the malcontents, failures and riffraff from the United States. Many felt the nation was good to be rid of them. So initially, Texas was an independent republic. However, public and elite opinion began to change, and finally Texas was admitted.
Even in the early days of our Republic, many people were hostile to the government that they had created, Adams, a politician with a very thin skin, was insulted by the public criticizing the government after having elected it. His concept was that the public should elect their representatives and leaders and then live with what the representatives and leaders do. He in particular came in for much public criticism and insult and even passed laws – the Alien and Sedition Acts – making it illegal to verbally attack the government.
Frank Chodorov was an American member of the Old Right, a group of libertarian thinkers who were non-interventionist in foreign policy and opposed to both the American entry into World War II and the New Deal. He was called by Ralph Raico "the last of the Old Right greats."
