“Let's stop somebody from doing something!
Everybody does too much.”
A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician
"Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something", Ballads for Broadbrows (1930).
“[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.”
Source: Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980), p. 396, “Freedom is Better,” Plain Talk, (November 1949)
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