Differences Quote by 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 his hands to himself.”

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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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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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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