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States Quotes by Joseph Sobran
- We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every…
- War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness…
- Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
- Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as…
- There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology…
- Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.
- 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…
- Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.
- 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…
- The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those…
- 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…
- The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious…
- It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen…
- The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
More States Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur