Frank Chodorov Quotes

Power is always a corrupting influence.

When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

You can't trust anybody with power.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Yes, citizens, Iturbide was a traitor, a hypocrite and an impious man who destroyed the assembly in which the people had deposited their sovereignty in order to appropriate it all to himself

… the sole end of government is the protection and security of the people; whenever therefore that power which was originally instituted to effect these important and valuable purposes is employed to harass and enslave the people, … it becomes a curse rather than a blessing.

Those who administer or possess governing power, always try to surround their high-handed actions with a cloak of legality, and to persuade the people that they act from good motives; this they are easily able to effect when they are the sole interpreters of the law;

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or few is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Abusers of power make enemies who eventually get even.

... all of our human experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

The most express declarations and reservations are necessary to protect the just rights and liberty of mankind from the silent, powerful and ever active conspiracy of those who govern.

Power tends to corrupt if you're there too long.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

Those who have by an unrighteous power made merchandise of the earth, giving all to some, & none to others, declare themselves tyranicall & usurping.