Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image