All Joseph Sobran Quotes
- Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state. Creature
- Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it. Country
- 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 from its subjects… Achieve
- Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards. Always Brings
- A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides… Absolute
- The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century. Anarchism
- It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their… Americans
- Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social… Ceased
- Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little… Constitution
- A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to… Accept
- De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a great success. Nor… Abolition
- In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people… Associate
- Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth. Best
- Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the… Control
- Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with… Americans
- The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those… All
- Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means. Agenda
- It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying… Behind
- In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. College
- Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities. Call
- A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you. Destroy
- Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. Ask
- Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly… Advocates
- At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly… Amazingly
- All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should… Agree