Joseph Sobran

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

— Joseph Sobran

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

— Joseph Sobran

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

— Joseph Sobran

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

— Joseph Sobran

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

— Joseph Sobran

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

— Joseph Sobran

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

— Joseph Sobran

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

— Joseph Sobran

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep…

— 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

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be…

— Joseph Sobran

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

— Joseph Sobran

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery…

— Joseph Sobran

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it…

— Joseph Sobran

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

— 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

...[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

A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep…

— 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

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and…

— 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

Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients…

— 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

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government…

— Joseph Sobran

In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus…

— Joseph Sobran

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…

— Joseph Sobran

The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as…

— Joseph Sobran

A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean…

— Joseph Sobran

So when the wolf pounces on your lamb, just ignore the pitiful bleating and remind yourself that this is a democracy, where…

— Joseph Sobran

When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him…

— Joseph Sobran

“When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to…

— Joseph Sobran

Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.

— Joseph Sobran

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

— Joseph Sobran

War is just one more big government program.

— Joseph Sobran

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

— Joseph Sobran

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

— Joseph Sobran

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

— Joseph Sobran

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its…

— Joseph Sobran

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

— Joseph Sobran