Reader Quotes by Joseph Sobran

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

— Joseph Sobran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

— Joseph Sobran

...[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

...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

— Joseph Sobran

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