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…

— Joseph Sobran

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both…

— Joseph Sobran

The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral…

— 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…

— Joseph Sobran

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the…

— 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…

— Joseph Sobran

Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Joseph Sobran

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government,…

— Joseph Sobran

Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves.…

— Joseph Sobran

Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government…

— Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

— Joseph Sobran

The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private…

— Joseph Sobran

It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion;…

— Joseph Sobran

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such…

— Joseph Sobran

People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is…

— Joseph Sobran

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see…

— Joseph Sobran

Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and…

— Joseph Sobran

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

— Joseph Sobran

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended…

— Joseph Sobran

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

— Joseph Sobran