Joseph Sobran Quotes - Page 3

• The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

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  Gobierno, Libertad, Libertario

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• 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.

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  Hands, Differences, Political

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

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  Government, Agents, Politics

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• 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 for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves.

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  Tyrants, Abuse, Limits

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• All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.

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  President, Nervous, Should

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• The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing some people to support others. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society.

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  People, Support, Expansion

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• I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

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  New York, Thinking, Mad

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• 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.

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  Government, Tyrants, May

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• The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

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  Comforting, Royal, Radical Change

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• Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.

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  Men, Numbers, States

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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 is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism.

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  Christian, Religious, Style

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• If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

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  War, Needs, Defense

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• Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

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  Liberty, Libertarian, Program

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• El mejor argumento a favor del anarquismo es el siglo XX.

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  Argument, Century, Anarchism

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• The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers, as The Federalist Papers attest (see No. 28), saw the state militias as forces that might be summoned into action against the federal government itself, if it became tyrannical.

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  Rights, Government, Second Amendment

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• A algunas personas no les importa un poco de sofisma constitucional por una buena causa; y para los liberales, centralizar todo el poder en el gobierno federal es siempre una buena causa. Dado que la mayoría de los estadounidenses no saben ni les importa lo que dice la Constitución, y mucho menos lo que sus antepasados pensaban que significaba, el gran trabajo de nieve liberal ha tenido mucho éxito.

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  Jobs, Successful, Government

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• Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

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  Dream, Lying, Giving

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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 social engineering.

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  Media, Derechos, Gobierno

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• The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

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  Government, Libertarian Party, Liberty

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• 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 the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

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  Blessing, Reality, Government

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• Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

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  Men, Liberty, Best Of Me

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• If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.

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  Media, Years, Names

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• 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 aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.

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  People, Liberty, Facts

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• The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious and otherwise - shrinks.

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  Religious, Mean, Understanding

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• Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth from their ravenous government. Pitiful, in a way: it underlines the grim but
  unacknowledged fact that the government is their enemy and they have to hire protection from it. But don't we enjoy 'self-government'? Well, if we have it, I'd hardly say we enjoy it. True, we aren't being taxed by the monarch of Great Britain, but our American-born rulers claim far more of our wealth than the British monarchs ever did.

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  Block, Government, Self

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