Birthright Quote by Joseph Sobran

“Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.”

Joseph Sobran

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

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Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…

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Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and…

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The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it…

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Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary…

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Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of…

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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…

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Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining…

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Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

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...[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…

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...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

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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.

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It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.

David Simon

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Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all that men, and all that gods enact, Hopes, fears, imaginations, purposes; With joy, and pain, and every pulse that beats In the great body of the universe, I give to the eternal sisterhood, To make my peace withal! And cast…

Hartley Coleridge

“You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score." "A few," Salma allowed. "Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men…

Adrian Tchaikovsky

I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.

Kwame Dawes

We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy…

Oprah Winfrey

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Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the…

Rush Limbaugh

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None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you…

Shmuley Boteach

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It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle,…

Tracey Ullman

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Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

Steve Jurvetson

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It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.

Caroline Myss

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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Immanuel Kant

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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent,…

Theodore Dwight Weld

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