Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves. — 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 doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share
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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