Joseph Sobran Men Quotations

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

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

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

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.

It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that.

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

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

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?