Joseph Sobran Quotes

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• The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

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  Fear, Mean, Men

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• In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

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  Wisdom, Latin, Teaching

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• Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

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  Mean, Compassion, Wanting Someone

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• 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. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.

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  Kings, Impact, Government

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• Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

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  Loyalty, Mean, Independence

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• 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 an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.

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  Real, Government, Names

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• Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

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  Civilization, White, League

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• Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

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  Believe, Democracies Have, Libertarian Party

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• An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

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  Mean, Men, Used

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• 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 logic of gun control.

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  Mean, Gun, Political

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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 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.

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  Goal, Wish, Principles

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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 a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

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  Ideas, Hot, Enthusiasm

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• 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 intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

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  Funny, Government, Political

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• When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

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  Mean, Diversity, Clamor

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• 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 we overlook the contribution of the entertainment industry, which now determines what passes for 'culture.' The main practical vehicle of de-Christianization has been the Sexual Revolution. A few radicals have called for the abolition of the family, but most liberals have been more discreet, avoiding hostile rhetoric while quietly but constantly pursuing policies that result in lower birthrates and fatherless children.

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  Children, America, Government

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• 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 to unintended secondary results.

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  Hate, War, Optimism

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• Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

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  Giving, Presidential, Liberty

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• Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

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  People, Greed, Political

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• 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 citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".

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  Government, Liberty, Criminals

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• 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 makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?

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  War, Men, Thinking

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• It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that.

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  Morning, Exercise, Men

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• The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

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  Mean, College, Views

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• War is just one more big government program.

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  War, Government, Liberty

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

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  Mean, Stills, Birthright

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• When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him to bed an hour early. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the rules, explain that you made the rules and you can interpret them in any way that seems appropriate to you, according to changing conditions. This will prepare him for the Supreme Court's concept of the US Constitution as a 'living document'.

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  Children, Way, Bed

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