The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. — 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
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