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From Quotes by Joseph Sobran
- People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to…
- The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them…
- Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and…
- 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…
- 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…
- In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
- 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…
- 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…
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