Quotes by Joseph Sobran

“After tens of millions of [abortion] procedures, has America lost anything? Another Edison, perhaps? A Gershwin? A Babe Ruth? A Duke Ellington? … As it is, we will never know what abortion has cost us all.”

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”

“Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.”

“Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Courts result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.”

“It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mothers decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a fathers decision to let it mature into a live child.”

“These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who dont want their children, give them to me.”

“The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective and wants to return it for a refund. But, its too late.”

“Politicians never accuse you of greed for wanting other peoples money - only for wanting to keep your own money”

“In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college”

“War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections”

“Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission”

“The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire”

“War is just one more big government program.”

“Most Americans arent 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.”

“If the welfare state is here to welcome them, the solution is to get rid of it, as should have been done long ago. Overpopulation is a problem for socialist systems, not for free societies. In fact, the welfare system may be more destructive [to] the immigrants families than to the natives.”

“I find myself surrounded by teenagers with body-piercing and exposed navels, gabbing on cell phones and listening to hip-hop. Maybe Im missing something here. But I just dont feel the least bit threatened by immigrants.”

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..

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.

At the end of a century that has seenthe evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies,the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say, $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed it and asks to be paid, withhold $5 and explain that this is income tax. Give $1 to his younger brother, and tell him that this is fair. Also, explain that you need the other $4 yourself to cover the administrative costs of dividing the money. When he cries, tell him he is being selfish and greedy. Later in life he will thank you.