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List of Joseph Sobran Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 92 inspiring quotes by Joseph Sobran.

About Joseph Sobran

  • Born: February 23, 1946
  • Died: September 30, 2010
  • Occupation: Journalist
    • 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
    Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the constitution meant what liberals now say it means.
    Mean Thinking Agendas
    A christian can believe that god 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.
    Christian Believe Forever
    Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.
    Loyalty Country Lying
    Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.
    Law Liberty May
    Liberals see the constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.
    Constitution Evolve Has Beens
    Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained congress at all. instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.
    Government Judicial Review Favors
    Controlling the interpretation of the constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. that means keeping the federal judiciary as liberal as possible and treating the u.s. supreme court's liberal legacy as sacrosanct.
    Mean Government Legacy
    Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.
    Erosion Together Expansion
    Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. maybe we're stuck with it. but do we have to worship it?
    Idols Evil Doe
    Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.
    Anarchy States Doomed
    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
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