Best Quotes by Joseph Sobran (Top 10)
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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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The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
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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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Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
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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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War is just one more big government program.
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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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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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Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
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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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More Joseph Sobran Quotes
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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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The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
Joseph Sobran