Joseph Sobran

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only…

— Joseph Sobran

It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the…

— Joseph Sobran

Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth…

— Joseph Sobran

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically…

— Joseph Sobran

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the…

— Joseph Sobran

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes…

— Joseph Sobran

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

— 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

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

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

— Joseph Sobran

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may…

— Joseph Sobran

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful…

— 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

The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more…

— Joseph Sobran

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the…

— Joseph Sobran

It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century…

— Joseph Sobran

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

— Joseph Sobran

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

— 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

The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states.…

— Joseph Sobran

Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its…

— Joseph Sobran

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

— 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

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