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Joseph Sobran Biography

Michael Joseph Sobran Jr. (February 23, 1946 – September 30, 2010) was an American journalist, formerly with National Review magazine and a syndicated columnist. Pat Buchanan called Sobran "perhaps the finest columnist of our generation".

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Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

Campaign, Campaigns, Donors, Government, Voters

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.

Christian, Compromise, Notion, Religion, Religious, Style

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

Creature, Disposed, Members, Men, Numbers, States

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.

Men, Law, Liberty, Obscuring, Laws, Principles

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

Fear, Mean, Men, Honor, Attempt, Recognize

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal. ' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

Sacrifice, Would Be, Abnormal, Hard, Chesterton, Habit

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.

Americans, Block, Government, Grim, Hire, Self

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.

Democratically, Elected, Exist, Government, May, Tyrants

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

100, College, Latin, School, Teaching, Wisdom

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 per cent.

Government, Liberty, Libertarian, Per, Chances, Terrorists

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.

Government, Usa, America, Constitution

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.

Critics, Empathy, Father, Founding, Government, Serfs

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.

Rights, Government, Second Amendment, Action, Meant, States

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

Abortion, Bedroom, Government, Kitchen

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document. ' But it amounts to the same thing.

Successful, Revolution, United States, Occur, Revolutions, Say

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.

Government, Mean, Rights, Service, Social

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Christianity, Know, Knows, Worse, Would Be

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

Reality, Thinking, Bridges, Mere, Respect, Become

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.

Difference, Differences, Hands, Political, Politician

The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they have an authority in our hearts, even when we try to deny them. They command. We can obey or rebel. That is why Jesus is still not only loved but hated - and why those who hate him feel they have to profess to love him.

Jesus, Hate, Heart, Obey, Loved, Love

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