Quote #14
Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
More from Joseph Sobran
- President Bush says Islam is a 'religion of peace' that has been 'hijacked' by a few nuts. He would know.
- ...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment…
- Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
- The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
- Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money.
- The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frighte…
- People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is …
- Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it…