Best Joseph Sobran Sayings
- Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. Agent
- We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it. Christianity
- The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they… Aphoristic
- How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to… All
- Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always a… All
- ...[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 plain).… All
- The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious… Area
- ...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. Amendment
- 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… Allow
- If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion. Communism
- Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. Creep
- It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen… Always Supposed
- Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that… Active
- Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. Conspiracy
- An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews. Anti
- If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to… Anywhere
- The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. Anarchy
- Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. Arranges
- War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections Always Serves
- Joe Sobran has the best one-liners of anyone and sadly, most have never heard of him. The liberal press made sure of it. Anyone