Joseph Sobran
Joseph Sobran
Michael Joseph Sobran, Jr., known as Joe Sobran, was an American journalist, formerly with National Review magazine and a syndicated columnist. Pat Buchanan called Sobran "perhaps the finest columnist of our generation"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth23 February 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.
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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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Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
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It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.
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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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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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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 nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections
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I find myself surrounded by teenagers with body-piercing and exposed navels, gabbing on cell phones and listening to hip-hop. Maybe I'm missing something here. But I just don't feel the least bit threatened by immigrants.
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In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college
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Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.
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It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prosecute war -- yet they insist that the war is for 'freedom'.
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If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.
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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.