Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?
Joseph SobranThe 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.
Joseph SobranVoters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.
Joseph SobranSince outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
Joseph SobranIt 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.
Joseph Sobran