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Government Quotes by 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 easy: 100 per…
- War is just one more big government program.
- The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
- 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 Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
- The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a…
- Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
- There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of…
- By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum.…
- Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the…
- I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.
- 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…
- Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always a…
- ...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain).…
- 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…
- If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to…
More Government Quotes
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida